As of 15 October employees can go to work ONLY IF THEY HAVE ONE OF THESE THREE DOCUMENTS!

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The decision was made on a Govrenment session and it will come into effect on 15 October 2021.

The end goal of this measure is to make citizens realise that they need to get vaccinated and to keep the infection rates low in one of the countries most affected by the Coronavirus. 

The emoloyees who do not possess such a certificate will be suspended from work without pay, however, they cannot be dismissed. Those who ignore this regulation and come to work without the COVID "green pass", will face fines between 600 and 1,500 euros, says Reuters, as they had an overview of the preliminary draft of this regulation.

Even though some of the EU countries have ordered their health care workers to get vaccinated, none of the, apart from Italy, has made the "green COVID-19 pass" obligatory for all the workers.

The idea of COVID-passes had initially been appicable only to travel, but very soon after Italy started implementing these for access to public places like museums, gyms and the closed areas of restaurants.

After Britain, Italy has the second highest number of COVID-19-related deaths in Europe, reporting more than 130,000 fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic. 

Around 73 per cent out of 60 million Italians in total received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, whereas 68 per cent received both. 

The opponents of the "green pass" claim that making this document obligatory is an act of fundamental human rights and freedoms being trampled and an indirect way of introducing mandatory vaccination. 

Several European countries use the COVID-19 health pass for recreational activities and travel, but none of them have declared the pass obligatory for all public or private sector workers.