The decree law that unifies the regulations around Covid in the Canary Islands and opens the door to not allowing those who refuse to receive the vaccine or present a negative diagnostic test to work does not clarify which sectors will be affected by such an extreme.
According to the text, it will be the Government of the Canary Islands, "in its capacity as a health authority, in accordance with the requirements of article 22 of Law 31/1995, of November 8, on the prevention of Occupational Risks" that will determine which activities will require Covid certificates or tests. Likewise, the document also does not define what the labor situation would be for the worker in each of these hypothetical cases.
"The denial of consent to carry out diagnostic tests will be recorded in writing and will entail the impossibility of performing the work or activity to which the performance of the diagnostic test was conditioned. [...] This same precept will apply for the purposes of the vaccination requirement," explains the document published this Monday, which consists of 88 pages.
In addition, the regional Executive asserts, rejecting both one thing and the other could lead to "the possibility of imposing personalized restrictions or obligations in the terms provided for by this Decree Law."
Regarding the tests, they detail that they will be done "always by medical personnel in practice and will be subject to the indication criteria established at any time by the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands or by the Ministry of Health" and that the laboratories and materials "must be authorized and validated."
Finally, "the entity, organization or company must have the necessary means to complete the diagnostic process of active infection by Covud-19 according to the current protocols, and must commit to carrying out the necessary complementary tests."
The decree law, which will now go to the Parliament of the Canary Islands for processing as a bill, also regulates the use of masks, capacity, distance, hygiene measures or isolation and quarantines, as well as mass events, screenings, tracking, the processing of personal data, inspection, control and sanctioning regime, the alert system by phases and the restrictions of each of them, among other aspects.
