Vaccination Jab To Start A Job

Vaccination Jab To Start A Job Businesses in the UK are said to be already drawing up “no jab, no job” contracts for employees after the vaccines minister said it was “up to businesses what they do”.

Law firms told the Financial Times that businesses such as care home operators are already considering requiring their staff to have a Covid-19 vaccine once they have been made available to all adults in the UK.

But concerns have been raised about whether such a requirement could lead to discrimination against people who are unable to, or choose not to receive, a vaccine.



Pimlico Plumbers has already announced a ‘no jab, no job’ policy for new recruits, while Barchester Healthcare is said to have revealed a similar policy for hiring new staff, according to the publication.

Pimlico Plumbers boss, Charlie Mullins, is well known to be a strong advocate of making vaccination the way out of the Covid crisis and allowing businesses to open up to those who can prove they have been inoculated against Covid-19.

The Government are focusing on mass vaccination and the use of lateral flow rapid testing rather than making it a mandatory requirement to have a Covid-19 jab in order to access jobs and services.

Whilst proof of receipt of a Covid-19 jab is seen as a very practical and efficient way of opening of businesses it is fraught with a range of technical and legal problems which are now being investigated.

Verifiable Credentials Ltd has received government funding to provide cryptographic software to East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust for its issuing of vaccine certificates to its staff. The company are also planning to trial its technology, using dummy data, with a theatre and cinema complex.

This initiative would explore whether customers could present their ticket alongside an NHS verified vaccine certificate to be scanned by a verifier app.

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