No more quarantine allowances. The provision of the Conte government that included it did not have refinancing and therefore the INPS no longer recognizes the period that workers must spend in quarantine when they come into contact with a positive at Covid as an illness. The confirmed cases of Covid are covered, these are illnesses for social security institutions, quarantine is no longer. If there are no such funds and the way of smart working is not feasible, there are two possibilities: pays the company or pays the worker.
A company he calculated that the cut could be up to 1000 euros in the pay slip if the employee were to pay. On average, it would be between 600 and 700 euros per employee for 10 days of absence, given that the quarantine has been reduced from 14 to 10 days for those who are not vaccinated. On the other hand, there are 7 days for those who are vaccinated.
In 2020, 962,000 workers were quarantined for alleged Covid contacts, for a total of 13 million sick days. Until the end of last year there are funds to cover quarantine as a disease. For 2020 there were 663.1 million euros allocated. On the other hand, there are insufficient funds for 2021, according to INPS and therefore the problem could also be retroactive. A esteem reports the hypothesis of more than 200 thousand workers who were in quarantine in the first six months of the year and for which the companies have not received the reimbursement of the social security institution.
The confederal trade unions have asked the government “for urgent regulatory intervention that will allow the Institute to ensure protection for female workers”. Businesses are also worried. Unimpresa, an association representing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises explains: “In any case, it would be a question of dealing with damage, which could be double: manage the absence of staff, which in the event of business infections could even halve, therefore with consequences on business operations, and, at the same time, suffer a burden for any compensation of holes in employee pay».
Equating quarantine to disease was a decided measure to prevent the worker from having to take it holidays or leave to stay at home. Lack of financial coverage leads to taking these days or seeing a cut in your paycheck. Not renewing the provision, however, could also be a further incentive to vaccination which in fact reduces the time of quarantine and therefore absence from work.
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