Question: and if almost 4 million Italian workers without a Green Pass did not do it, how long would the obligation last?
Italian workers without the Green Pass, at the end of September, are still about 4.1 million: 3.7 million in the private sector and about 400 thousand (12% of the total, not trifles) in the public. Obviously the government and employers hope and trust that these workers will be in good standing by October 15th. A part then, self-employed workers who do not go to places where other employees are present, would have an obligation that no one controls. The maximum source of law of the modern post-covid legislature of the Italian Republic says so: the ministerial FAQs , other than the Constitution.
Let's make an absurd hypothesis: that of these 4.1 million Italians, all or most of them do not take the Green Pass. So we would have 15% -17% of workers who, in theory, could not go to work overnight. now I know what you think: with 9% unemployed we replace them in a heartbeat. Instead it is not so:
- the unemployed do not necessarily have a green pass;
- you cannot replace figures with special licenses and qualifications (nurses, truck drivers, forklift drivers) or specific qualifications (lawyers, geologist engineers) with the first person taken on the street.
Most likely the production chains linked to road transport or activities with professional or certification implications, or even trivial activities such as storage or construction, which however require specific work certifications, would suffer severe delays, if not even stop: we are seeing what happens in the UK due to a shortage in the number of fuel hauliers. A construction site does not go on if the bulldozer has to stay at home. A warehouse does not work if perhaps a third of the forklift workers cannot operate. Then there are the welders, industrial electricians etc.
If that set by the government was an ultimatum, it seems more like a place for itself and for the economy, not for the workers. Are we sure that this tension placed on a non-essential factor is really necessary for the Italian economy and society? I ask, for a friend, that the green pass has it but he is still very surprised….
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