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Art. 3, paragraph 5, of Decree Law no. 127/2021, also imposes on Lawyers and Law Firms in general a series of duties and obligations relating to the Covid-19 green certification (hereinafter also green pass).
In detail, Lawyers, as employers, must define, by October 15, 2021, the operational procedures for organizing the verification of the possession of the green pass by their possible employees. Similarly, Law Firms must have a formal act identifying the person responsible for control and for ascertaining any violations.
Failure to adopt the organizational measures referred to in the aforementioned paragraph 5, including the failure to formally identify the person responsible for verifications and reporting violations, constitutes conduct punishable by an administrative fine of between 400 and 1,000 euros.
While awaiting the definition, on the one hand, of the Government's guidelines for the “homogeneous definition of organizational procedures” and, on the other, for the identification of the person responsible for verifications and ascertainments by “formal act”, it is considered that the signing of an internal protocol with a certain date, attributable to the document by affixing a digital signature, is sufficient to meet the requirement contained in art. 3, paragraph 5, of Decree Law no. 127/2021, it being understood that the definition of operational procedures may take place by October 15, 2021, as well as the adoption of the formal act.
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