There is a controversy over the return to work of professors no vax , who can now access the institutes with only the swab, but without coming into contact with the students. Headmasters, trade unions and some parties speak of a “mess”, which would make the situation difficult to manage. Also because the audience is interested and relevant: there are about 4 thousand unvaccinated professors and some unions speak of a total of 10 thousand people who have chosen not to be vaccinated in the school, including Ata and secretarial staff. For all of them, the publication of the decree in the Official Gazette has resulted in the suspension from work and salary no longer being suspended: even if the vaccination obligationremains until June 15 and the administrative fine of 100 euros is confirmed, a tampon is enough to return to work immediately, with relative salary, but they must not be in contact with students .
“It is very difficult, in institutes, to establish which tasks are not in contact with the children”, observes however the president of the National Association of Principals , Antonello Giannelli . “The same secretarial employees and janitors come into contact with the pupils. There is a desire to normalize the situation of those who have not been vaccinated: they pay their salary for not working, giving substantially non-existent tasks. Nice masterpiece”.
“Obviously, we neglect the fact that 90% of the people who attend them in schools are students and it is impossible to identify places where their presence is not present”, echoes Mario Rusconi , president of the National Association of Rome Headmasters , who points out ” a myriad of protests from the principals “ .
“The question deserves to be investigated and reviewed,” say the M5S members of the Chamber’s Culture Committee, highlighting that the decree provides “vaguely” that the unvaccinated will be able to return to service, but only for “support activities for the school institution”. The 5S are also perplexed because this staff “will be replaced in employment by paid alternate staff with funds allocated for the enhancement of teachers. A paradox that must be resolved. We will present amendments”.
Criticism also from the former Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina , also M5S. “They are teachers – she points out – but they will not have to teach. They will therefore be demoted, to carry out which tasks but it is not clear. They will go to the library where, however, they will be in contact with other teachers and students.
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“. All this while” for fragile workers, who need evident protections, everything returns as before “. Nicola Fratoianni , from the Italian Left, asks for” a decisive intervention by Palazzo Chigi “in the face of a situation that sees the professors vaccinated “you do not know what to do but, this is certain, by removing the funds from the institutes.”
Even the Federation of Knowledge Workers CGIL points out that the funds necessary to pay the substitutes of the no vax “are subtracted from the fund of the institute : they are taken in schools. And this without taking into account that these resources have already been the subject of didactic planning and bargaining, and therefore already committed to other activities “., Ivana Barbacci , and “an ambiguous and almost impracticable measure”, which “risks creating problems and disparities in treatment between staff who have regularly undergone vaccination, in many cases not light-hearted, and those who have not done so . I also believe that it is necessary to consider with great attention the situation of fragile workers, for whom the protection rules are not extended, even in a context of contagions that do not decrease, rather they tend to increase. Finally, it is unacceptable – he concludes – that the 14 million for pay the alternate staff used in other tasks are subtracted from the contractual resources intended for the enhancement of teachers “.
Like teachers, they can return to work with only the basic green pass also military and members of unvaccinated law enforcement agencies , but in these cases there are no restrictions on use. A circular from the Chief of Police, Lamberto Giannini , was issued so that “each of the suspended employees is made aware” of their readmission “to service starting from 25 March 2022”.
Finally , for those who exercise health professions and are not vaccinated , the suspension from the service is valid until 31 December 2022.
