Unvaccinated job applicants in Scotland are facing discrimination from employers only willing to hire those who’ve been double-jabbed. Although the Scottish Government has allowed unvaccinated staff to continue working at venues that require a vaccine passport, and has made it clear that an employee’s vaccination status must not be taken into consideration by employers, some private companies have decided to set their own rules. The Times has the story.
Human rights experts have warned that overlooking people who refuse jabs for posts may be illegal but a review of the Scottish labour market has uncovered at least seven adverts that say unvaccinated people need not apply.
Clinicians and care workers north of the border are not obliged to have been inoculated like their colleagues in England. Applicants for care home jobs in Scotland must provide proof of vaccination via MyJobsScotland, an official public sector recruitment portal run by Cosla, the council umbrella body.
The Times has found a construction recruitment agency demanding labourers provide proof of vaccination.
Last night Nicola Sturgeon shelved plans to ban unvaccinated people from visiting pubs, gyms and restaurants. She will revisit the proposal on Tuesday after consultation with businesses.
The First Minister has made clear that unvaccinated staff are free to continue working in nightclubs and sports stadiums, which are required to turn away patrons if they do not have a vaccine passport.
Alex Cole-Hamilton, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, said that the Times’ analysis provided further evidence that vaccine passports should be scrapped. “We warned Covid ID cards would creep into more and more parts of our lives. It is now happening. These vaccine passports give a false sense of security and people who hold them can be just as infectious.”
The Scottish Greens, who have ministers in Scotland’s SNP-Green power-sharing Government, said that it was “not right that an offer of employment is predicated on an individual’s vaccination status”.
In documents detailing the Scottish Government’s own assessment, vaccine passports must not be a condition of job interviews.
The equalities study warned that bigoted employers could use vaccine certificates to discriminate against ethnic minorities and pregnant women who are less likely to be vaccinated.
The Times analysis showed Search Consultancy Limited, a recruitment agency based in West Sussex, posted a job ad for labourers in Edinburgh, Lothians and Borders stressing that applicants “must be fully vaccinated from Covid”.
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I think you mean the true case fatality rate will go LOWER. That would be the case as the true number of infections is determined.
BBC radio More or Less last night (20/5) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000j949 had a very good piece on the risks around schools re-opening. (ie there are none!!)
I think more notice should be taken of this programme.. especially by the rest of the BBC. It is the only programme that actually looks into facts with any accuracy and without the usual BBC bias and prejudice. In fact a bit of an outlier.. Surprised that the management let them get away with it.
also last night’s programme had interesting piece about the german covid figures.
The behaviour of teachers in the COVID-19 crisis is actually very easy to understand, even if it’s infuriating to see the consequences. Most teachers exist in an environment where they are permanently terrified of being accused by anyone higher up the chain, or a parent, of falling short in any one of a myriad different ways. This includes anything to do with a student’s welfare or safety even where the allegations are ridiculous or even invented. Every trip, every activity is preceded by laborious risk assessment processes, and mountains of paperwork. However exemplary a teacher’s career record it can be destroyed in a few minutes by a single malicious or a mischievous allegation, or a genuine but innocent mistake however minor. I know of one instance where a teacher with an outstanding record stretching over decades inadvertently uploaded to the school website some confidential information. He realised his mistake almost instantly and removed the material straightaway. Nonetheless the school management, anxious to reduce its complement of expensive older teachers gave him the choice of resigning or facing a disciplinary investigation on the grounds that he had compromised safeguarding. He left teaching.
School hierarchies are byzantine too. I did work in one for nine years, and my wife taught for 35 years, so I know about all this from firsthand.
This has created a culture where initiative is stifled and where taking responsibility for anything is something not only many teachers try to avoid, but are also even told to by unions. As I recall unions discouraged anything to do with school trips on the basis that teachers were expected to take excessive responsibility. Of course many teachers do resist and go ahead but they still fall over themselves to cover their backs.
The net effect is that confronted with this crisis a lot of teachers are literally paralyzed with fear – not necessarily of the virus (which is how it’s being expressed) – but of being accused of anything. They already were paranoid. These primary schools packed with taped off areas and showcase COVID arrangements are just that: they’re there primarily to showcase the headteacher and teachers as being beyond reproach. The whole thing is designed to deflect allegations and accusations and just reflects an elaboration of what schools are like now anyway. In that sense it’s part of a culture of competitive virtue-signalling but now it’s taking schools into an environment where they will literally be unable to fulfil their remit by trying to operate these new zero-risk set-ups.
Such an accurate assessment!
The first comment I received from the staff at our pre-school was “What’s going to happen to us if a child gets sick? We are going to be blamed.”
Christine Brett’s article is reassuring and inspires confidence.