This is how the government (not) protects fragile workers

14 September 20222 years ago babelfish

The amendment for fragile workers was approved in the Senate but the protections were halved. The intervention of Francesco Provinciali and Francesco Alberto Comellini

The Senate approved the Aid Decree bis and with it smart working for fragile workers until 31 December next

Minister Orlando says: "promise kept", speaking for himself and for the Democratic Party. Now they will wait for the "useful vote".

But not all the frail can work in smart working. This was known by the Minister, the entire Government and Parliament. Too bad he forgot the others: no equation of the disease with hospitalization.

Protection not renewed: no renewal of paragraph 2 – art. 26 of Legislative Decree 17/3/2020 n. ° 18 and subsequent extensions.

There are fears for those who will not be able to access agile work in the order: exhaustion of leave for health, holidays and dismissal. Above all, contagion and the consequences of the right to "protected disease" are feared with the equation to hospitalization, and instead denied.

Yet the Minister and Senators Nannicini and Manca – delegated by him to deposit the amendment – knew everything, in detail. The situation and the need for the TWO PROTECTIONS (smart working and equating the disease with hospitalization) had been warmly represented and in a detailed and detailed manner.

Many have written to the Ministry, parliamentarians, associations, trade unions have intervened: nothing to do.

It follows that the halving of the protections is an act of will, not an error.

What to say? Well done!

Now the ministers of Labor, Health, Public Function, Disability (and for the school of education) will have to explain to those fragile workers who are precluded from the possibility of smart working what they will have to do. They will also have to explain this to their employers who will be responsible for a yes or a no.

They may be the most fragile, those who have to go through chemotherapy or take life-saving drugs. To which saint should they be devoted?

If agile work is not foreseen for them and considering the non-renewal of paragraph 2 of art. 26 of Legislative Decree 17/3/2022 n. ° 18 must the frail who are excluded from it therefore have to go to work?

When – for example – they undergo treatment for the pathologies they suffer from. With the risk of overexposure to Covid infection in all its variants, even if vaccinated.

Or they will have to take advantage of the contractual sick leave, until it is extinguished, then ask for leave and finally suffer the punishment of dismissal, perhaps after having been home without a salary.

All possibilities and occurrences well known to those who wrote the text of the amendment approved in the Senate.

Yet not one comma has been changed.

Now the measure passes to the Chamber and it is the last possibility to correct the text by also including paragraph 2 of art. 26 of the aforementioned Legislative Decree 18/2020, now absent.

After that, save those who can.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/ecco-come-il-governo-non-tutela-i-lavoratori-fragili/ on Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:32:47 +0000.