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Voluntary serological testing of all ATA faculty and staff: should temporary workers do it? Will they also have the right to free administration?
Note no. 8722 of August 7, 2020 issued by the Ministry of Health on the administration of serological tests to be carried out on a voluntary basis to all teaching and non-teaching staff of public and private schools as of August 24, before the reopening of schools in September, created not a few controversies and numerous uncertainties, especially among precarious teachers, many of whom will start working after the start date of the new 2020/2021 school year.
Clarifications about the note
The aforementioned note reads as follows:
Subject: Operational directions for implementation voluntarily serological tests in teaching and non-teaching personnel in public and private schools throughout the country
The screening is aimed at teaching and non-teaching staff, operating in lactation centers, preschools, public, state and non-state, peer and private elementary and secondary schools, and in vocational education and training institutions throughout the country, with the exception of for staff targeted by similar initiatives undertaken autonomously by autonomous regions or provinces.
For staff joining service after the start of the school year testing will be conducted prior to entry into actual service.
QThis is part of what the note says, let’s try to clarify the doubts that accompany many precarious teachers these days:
Does the precarious teacher have to undergo the administration of the serological test?
Given that the substantial difference between permanent teachers and precarious teachers is linked to the precarious state of the latter, who are hired at the beginning of the school year and then fired at the end of teaching activities or the school year, the note from the Ministry of Health. is aimed at all teachers and the administration of serological tests is voluntary.
Is the serological test also free for temporary workers who join the service later?
The test is also free for precarious teachers. Only teachers who have not yet joined the service and decide to do it privately and independently will have to pay for it..
Can anyone who does not take the test accept the service?
Although the note says: “Per the personnel who enter service after the beginning of the school year the tests will be carried out before the effective entry into service “, which It does not mean that if you do not submit to the serological test, you cannot join the service, as we have reiterated it is voluntary and there is no obligation.
Procedures for serological tests
What should the precarious teacher who wants to undergo the serological test do since he has been identified as a recipient of a temporary position?
The procedure is identical to what all school personnel are doing:
- Contact your GP and book the screening. The doctor will perform the administration of the rapid serological test, performed through the pungidito, whose result will be known in a few minutes, only in the case of positivity will it be necessary to proceed with the nasopharyngeal swab. It will be the Department of Public Health contact within 48 hours the person for the swab whose confirmation of positivity will oblige you to Mandatory quarantine according to protocol, even in the absence of symptoms, until declaration of cure with subsequent negative swab.
- If the GP has not joined the initiative or does not have a GP, the test can be performed at the competent ASL (Prevention Department) in the area.
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