Workers without the three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will not be able to work in person

The three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine became a mandatory requirement to be able to work in person in a company, following a change in the provision of the regulations of the General Labour Inspection Act.

In accordance with the provisions of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion (MTPE) in the Supreme Decree No. 004-2022-TR, employers could incur “a very serious administrative offense if they dispose, require or permit entry or stay of people to provide services in the workplace, when they do not have the doses of vaccination against COVID-19, required for face-to-face work activity, according to current regulations or, if they are excepted, breach the conditions and obligations provided for such a case, as established by ministerial resolution or rule replacing it from the competent Health Authority”.

That is, the worker who only has two doses of the vaccine, or less, and wants to work in person voluntarily, will not be able to do so, since his employer or the company he provides services for will be fined.

As for the financial penalty that will be imposed on workplaces that let their employee perform without having their full vaccination, the measure indicates that this will depend on how many employees were affected. Specialists indicate that currently fines for companies that are criminalized for very serious infringements range from 2,63 ITU (S/12,098) to 52,53 ITU (S/241,638).

Supreme Decree No. 004-2022-TR also states that workers in service providers or service providers who do not have all three doses of COVID-19 vaccines may not work in person.

“The total number of people who provide services in person at the workplace in which the commission of the said offense was warned are considered to be affected workers,” they indicate in the decree.

As is recalled, since April 1, the State has made it mandatory for all people over 18 years of age to have all three doses of the coronavirus vaccine to enter public and private establishments.

In that sense, he gave face-to-face workers a period of 15 days, who do not have their booster dose, to completely immunize themselves, in order not to interfere in their work activities, whether in the private or public sector.

“For a maximum period of fifteen calendar days after the entry into force of this Supreme Decree, private service providers and public sector workers who do not have the third dose may continue to carry out face-to-face work activity,” said the legal device.

100% PUBLIC SERVICES

Yesterday afternoon, the president of the Council of Ministers, Aníbal Torres, announced the non-mandatory return of all public servants in regions where three-dose vaccination has reached 80%.

At a press conference, the prime minister asserted that face-to-face is necessary to ensure good attention to citizens, under conditions in which virtuality has not always been able to prosper since the start of the pandemic.

“They must return to face-to-face work because it is necessary to attend to the public properly, which is difficult with this remote work,” said the head of the PCM.

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