Italy begins enforcing one of the world's strictest workplace vaccine mandates, risking blowback
ROME —Italy pushed into new territory for a Western democracy on Friday, enforcing a stringent workplace vaccination rule that was dramatically reshaping society even as the morning shift began. Everywhere from offices to factories, workers faced a new requirement for entering and earning a paycheck: They had to first flash the QR code of a government-issued health pass.
"It's something surreal," said Luca Girotto, 47, a vaccinated machinist who had the pass and was able to work.
"A social experiment," said Umberto Peron, 59, an unvaccinated road maintenance worker who lacked the pass and was forced to stay home.
While Italy's government drew up the new measures in the name of safety, the mandates are also beginning to separate society into different tiers of freedom — in a way that might have seemed far-fetched a year ago. The new society is one in which the vaccinated reprise their lives and the unvaccinated face a choice: Either they get immunized, or they risk losing their incomes — along with the ability to dine indoors, attend a concert, see a movie or board a high-speed train.
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