Anti vaxers and the workplace

[Burnthurst187]

If we were to fast forward exactly one year hopefully everybody in the UK that wants the vaccine will have (both injections) by then

How do you think your work place would then feel towards and treat an employee who caught covid and had to have time off sick but had chosen not to have the vaccine for whatever reason?

I'm fairly certain that at my workplace it wouldn't go down very well and there would be a lot of bad feeling towards that person. We're paid our full wage if ill, not just statutory sick pay but it's at the manager's discretion

I may be wrong but I just get the feeling that there would be very little sympathy for somebody that got covid and was ill but chose not to have the vaccine. Your company may be different

Do you think employer's will demand to know if you've had the vaccine? Can they demand this info?

Actually quite interested in this thread ... I think a lot of bigger companies will buy but my 2 previous anti Vaxer mates now want it x

How would they know if you've had the vaccine or not? Call in sick feeling rough. They won't know what or of you've got covid

Are they also responsible for catching measles or the flu? This is wildly ridiculous. I am not an anti-vaxxer, but this is a democracy. People have rights, and any member of staff who didn't respect that would be on a disciplinary. We do not discriminate on any health grounds. And we also do not ask people for any of their vaccination records.

If someone is off sick, then we have polices to manage all sickness absence and they would be treated in the same way whatever illness they had.

I agree but only if they choose to not pay sick pay to people who smoke who then get lung cancer, or those who eat themselves into oblivion if they have a heart attack - they had better not pay them either, or the alcoholic who now has liver cirrhosis - they had better not be paid time off for their liver transplant.

Life is full of poor choices, why are we singling out someone who doesn’t want a covid vaccine?

So, no I don’t agree - even though I’ll be taking up the vaccine ^

We're paid our full wage if ill, not just statutory sick pay but it's at the manager's discretion intrigued by this comment - surely you are all on the same contracts? How can it be up to the manager what level of sick pay you receive?

What about women who need time off with pregnancy sickness? It’s their choice to get pregnant right?

They don’t ask now if you’ve had the flu vaccine, do they? So why would they ask about the Covid vaccine?!

Vaccines have never stopped everyone getting the disease that they are to inoculate you against as they aren't 100% effective.This is because you can catch a strain not in the vaccine or your immune system doesn't mount the necessary response. In addition the Covid vaccines just stop you getting a worse disease and being hospitalised.

So if you fall ill with Covid, you just say the vaccination didn't work.