I work for the NHS. A few weeks ago we had an email from line managers stating all staff were to have the flu vaccination unless they had a good reason not to. Acceptable reasons were along the lines of allergy, previous serious reaction, etc. things like moral objections, feeling crap after the last one, didn't appear to be acceptable. We were then told we had to email managers with our flu vacc status, ie whether we had had it or not. It now transpires they are telling people that if they have not had the vaccination and they are taken ill with any flu type illness (ie not even actual flu) that they will not be paid any sick pay.
Not sure how I feel about this but it makes me somewhat uncomfortable. Surely your own private medical information shouldn't be available to line managers under threat of no sick pay? If you get flu, there is a chance that it would have been avoided if you'd had the vacc but this is certainly not guaranteed. What if you broke your leg skiing? That could have been avoided but they will pay sick pay for that.
Is this even enforceable?
(DOI: I actually have had the vacc, before any of this rubbish started. I feel as frontline staff I should take precautions, and am happy to, but am very uncomfortable with the threatening nature of all this)
AIBU to object to this forced declaration of vacc status under threat of no sick pay?