Tuesday's meeting of the government with the opposition to fight the pandemic did not bring any concrete results. A declaration was made that the bill of MP Hoc (employee testing) will be processed at the two-day session of the Sejm, which begins on Wednesday, but that a new bill prepared by the government will also appear.
What's next for lex Hoc? Will there be a new project to fight the pandemic?
Published Jan. 26, 2022 08:23
Most of the representatives of parliamentary clubs and circles on Tuesday went to the Prime Minister's Office with the expectation that the government would present concrete solutions that would help mitigate the fifth wave of the pandemic. This accelerates very quickly, Omikron already dominates in some regions - it would be necessary to increase the percentage of vaccinated (radical) and introduce certificates, but neither of them is likely to happen. Confederation representatives had different expectations, trying to convince that even the so-called lex Hoc, i.e. an act that is to enable employers to verify the covid status of employees.
The fate of Lex Hoc will be clear within two days. Because although government representatives assured that the bill would be processed this week, such an item is neither on the agenda nor in the agenda of the meeting. Of course, a point can be entered at any time - the question is why hasn't it been?
After Tuesday's meeting, some opposition even expect Lex Hoc to go to the basket? There was an announcement that a new project would be presented, which would partly relate to lex Hoc - it would give employers the opportunity to act in a civil manner against employees who avoided testing and as a result an epidemic was created. However, this is not all - the act would also strengthen the possibilities of prosecution for non-compliance with sanitary rules and would give the possibility of punishing doctors for not complying with the obligation to test patients 60+, infected with SARS-CoV-2 within the 48-hour period specified in the regulation.
- Despite spending two hours in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, we did not receive satisfactory information. There was an announcement that a new law was to be issued, which would be written after our meeting, because the prime minister is kind enough to first listen to the opposition what the opposition has to say, to later draft the law - explained Marcelina Zawisza from the Left after the meeting, whose representatives, moreover, left the Chancellery of the Prime Minister earlier than others. Politicians emphasized that they had brought their draft law on compulsory vaccinations and the use of certificates to the meeting, but it had not been adopted, and the government did not have any specific solutions.
