The government will meet with local elected officials and parliamentary groups this Tuesday afternoon to decide whether or not to make the health pass in business compulsory.
The government will decide, or not, to include the corporate health pass in the text on the vaccination pass after meeting local elected officials and parliamentary groups on Tuesday afternoon, its spokesperson Gabriel Attal said.
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“We are going to talk about it today, with local elected officials, with parliamentary groups“, and “we will make a decision at the end of whether or not to put it in the text of the law“Transforming the health pass into a vaccine pass, he said on France 2, with reference to this text that the government wants to see adopted by the end of January. “Then there will be a parliamentary discussion anyway“, Argued Gabriel Attal. He recalled that the consultations carried out on Monday between the Minister of Labor Elisabeth Borne and the social partners, “who are not enthusiastic“On a pass at work, allowed to clear”a form of consensus around the need for teleworking“, But that there is”on the other hand, no (had) really consensus around a health pass in the company“.
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“Encourage vaccination”
He nevertheless underlined the interest of such a measure: “the objective is to encourage vaccination as much as possible because we can still see that it is our best tool in the face of the progression of the epidemic“, He argued. Elisabeth Borne told AFP on Monday after consultations with the social partners that “nothing is done at this stage“, Specifying that the measure”would suppose a legislative provision“.
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Regarding the transformation of the health pass into a vaccination pass, Prime Minister Jean Castex receives on Tuesday representatives of local elected officials and the presidents of parliamentary groups for “see with them how can we move forward as fast as possible“, With a view to entry into force”fast», Underlined Gabriel Attal.
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