Vaccinated employees being treated different to the unvaccinated

 

Should Workers who are vaccinated be treated differently to their unvaccinated colleagues?

Elissa speaks with Jason Mohammad about unvaccinated workers and whether they should be treated differently to their vaccinated colleagues.

 

John Lewis wont be treating people differently, there are enough divisions already.

There are tensions in workforces where people don’t want to work with unvaccinated people.

Technically vaccination status is medical information which is protected under data protection law and shouldn’t be discussed. If the company has done their risk assessment and deemed the workplace safe to work, the employees should stop discussing medical records and get back to work.

Employers really need to know whether people have had the jab to enable them to do their risk assessments.  They need to know vaccination status to be able to know whether those workers can come back into work or not.

Many HR Anchor clients wont be differentiated against depending on vaccination status.

 

One point which needs to be made clear.  It’s not when people have the virus these employers are saying they won’t be paying people sick pay.  It’s only ones who have been “pinged” as a close contact and need to isolate at home because they have not been vaccinated.

 

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