Oricon: “Ok green pass at the canteen but under the sole control of the employer’s responsibility”

“The Government’s decision risks placing too great a responsibility on the catering companies and the result of a diatribe that does not concern us. We do not understand why to enter a hotel restaurant you do not need the Green pass and you can eat without further checks, but to enter a canteen yes, perhaps the government forgets that the canteen service is governed by a contract with the contracting company. The canteens are used within spaces made available by companies, the same companies where workers access their own workplace without any certification requirement “. Thus Carlo Scarsciotti, president of Oricon, collective catering and nutrition Observatory, joins the trade associations, trade unions and collective catering companies and hopes for an urgent discussion with the government on the decisions taken regarding the mandatory nature of the green pass to access company canteens. “The catering companies are not at all opposed to the green pass and since the first wave of the pandemic they have guaranteed the canteen service in every area (schools, hospitals and companies) with the strictest observance of safety provisions and compliance with anti-contagion protocols. “, he explains again. “Furthermore, it is not the responsibility and right of collective catering companies to decide who can access the canteen service or not, a responsibility that always falls to the employer as established in the same procurement contracts that regulate the service. Therefore, it is necessary and urgent to clarify that the responsibility for controls is the exclusive prerogative of the employer and not of the manager of the canteen service under contract “, concludes Scarsciotti.