The employers’ associations CAEB and Pimem and the unions UGT and CCOO have left the door open to negotiate with the Govern regarding the requirement of the covid passport to enter establishments open to the public, as restaurants or gyms, in order to avoid resorting to more drastic measures to curb the upward trend of infections, such as reapplying restrictions on hours and capacity on the whole of some sectors, something that social partners are strongly opposed. The CAEB hospitality sector itself asked the Government yesterday for the covid passport to be required to enter the establishments in this larger sector. They all argue that if limitations are to be applied, they should fall exclusively on people who have not wanted to be vaccinated, considering that the rest of the population, like businesses, have had to make many sacrifices to prevent the spread of the virus. In any case, sources of the Balearic Executive yesterday launched a message of calm by ensuring that for now nothing is planned to implement limitations on opening ours or capacity on economic sectors.
The first to take a step forward yesterday in this regard was the president of the employer’s association for hospitality CAEB, Alfonso Robledo, who asked the Govern to implement the requirement of the passport covid to access the interior of their establishments, at least the larger ones, to increase their safety and prevent the spread of fear and cancelation of business meals. The aim, he added, is to avoid having to opt for actions that could be more detrimental to these businesses, such as the return of restrictions on hours and capacity.
Alfonso Robledo defended the implementation of the passport covid in the sector, as is also being done in nightclubs, after it was announced that Madrid could launch the recommendation to set new opening hours in some sectors. This last possibility, he stressed, would be much worse than preventing unvaccinated people from entering these establishments, especially if one takes into account that the rate of immunized people in the Balearic Islands is over 80% of the target population.
“Covid passport”: sacrifice of many
Jordi Mora, José Luis García and Lorenzo Navarro were very forceful in pointing out that the vast majority of citizens have made sacrifices to get vaccinated and accepted the restrictions that have been applied by the pandemic, and now the benefits that this has entailed are put at risk by the minority that has not wanted to be immunized. It is therefore argued that any new restrictions should fall exclusively on this second group.
The president of Pimem highlighted the need for the islands to maintain low numbers of hospital and ICU admissions in order to be able to start a new tourist season with normality during the approaching Easter week.
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