A new survey from employment advisory agency Acas has found that more than one in five U.K. employers plan to implement a ‘no jab no job’ policy in the year ahead for both new and existing staff.
Acas commissioned YouGov to ask British businesses about whether they plan to make it a requirement for staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment.
Acas Chief Executive, Susan Clews, said:
Most workplaces are starting to navigate what working life should look like post-pandemic and it is clear from our poll that most employers have no plans to require staff to be vaccinated. One in five employers want to make it a requirement for staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the year ahead but this is a very tricky area of employment law. It is always best to support staff to get the vaccine rather than insisting that they get it and it’s a good idea for employers to get legal advice before bringing in a vaccine policy. Acas has advice on how best to support staff to get the vaccine and avoid conflict.
Employers were asked whether they planned to implement a ‘no jab no job’ policy for new staff in the year ahead. The poll revealed that:
• more than one in five of employers (22%) said yes
• over half of employers (52%) said no
• 21% said that they do not know or are not sure
• 5% preferred not to say
Employers were also asked whether they planned to implement a ‘no jab no job’ policy for existing staff. The poll showed that:
• more than one in five of employers (21%) said yes
• over half of employers (55%) said no
• 19% said that they do not know or are not sure
• 4% preferred not to say
Acas warns against discrimination and advises that it is best to support staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine rather than requiring them to get it.
There is currently no law in England, Scotland or Wales that says employees must have the vaccine. The Government removed the previous requirements for care home, health and social care staff on March 15th 2022.
If an employer feels it is important for staff to be vaccinated, then they should talk with staff or the organisation’s recognised trade union if they have one. Talking with staff can help to:
• agree a vaccine policy that’s appropriate for both staff and the organisation
• support staff to protect their health
• keep good working relationships
• avoid disputes in the futureThere are some practical ways that employers could support staff such as paying them their usual rate of pay if they are off sick with vaccine side-effects instead of statutory sick pay. Employers could also consider offering staff paid time off for vaccination appointments.
If someone does not want to be vaccinated, then the employer should listen to their concerns. Some people may have health reasons such as an allergic reaction to the vaccine and some employees may have other reasons for not wanting to be vaccinated.
Employers should be sensitive towards personal situations and must be careful to avoid discrimination.
Given the acute worker shortage, with vacancies outnumbering the unemployed for the first time on record, you wouldn’t have thought over a fifth of employers could really afford to tell the unvaccinated they’re not welcome, let alone any legal or ethical considerations.
Of course, we do need to bear in mind that it’s an online YouGov poll, which appear to have consistently overestimated support for restrictions.
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I thought the headline might be true, until I read the second paragraph and saw that YouGov was involved!
It makes literally zero scientific/medical sense, and everyone should know that now – including the government and its unscientific advisors. After micromanaging people’s lives for nearly two years, why can’t they give sensible advice to employers now?
This YouGov polls looks suspiciously like a Nudge.
This is what I find deeply disturbing:
“It is always best to support staff to get the vaccine rather than insisting that they get it”
and
“There are some practical ways that employers could support staff such as paying them their usual rate of pay if they are off sick with vaccine side-effects instead of statutory sick pay.”
Maybe ACAS are trying their best to avoid being labelled as anti-vax, but somebody needs to take a long hard look in the mirror – it is always best to support staff? How exactly are we doing that? Is anyone going to point out that for large groups of the population the disadvantages of the covid vaccine outweigh the benefits? If not we are talking about lying to and manipulating people. At least with a mandate you know what you are up against and the potential for legal action is there.
As for offering an enhanced rate of pay to staff if they are sick due to vaccine side-effects? So you are essentially giving financial incentives to remove a barrier for a person who might not otherwise take the covid vaccine, instead of asking staff to ask themselves why they are preparing… Read more »
JermWarfare newsletter:
Tim Noakes is one of the highest rated sports scientists in the world, and also one of my favourite people.
I met him a number of years ago at a book launch. He was launching his new book, and I was launching my new book. (The last book I released was in 2014. I might publish another one; I’ve been thinking about it.)
Tim joined me for a conversation about
eating fewer carbs and starchy food;
*eating more protein and fat;
*the failure of low-fat diets;
*avoiding sugar;
*diabetes and how to avoid it;
*the dangers of processed food; and
*why mental clarity and physical health start with what’s on your plate, rather than a pill from Pfizer.
His work has had a significant impact on my personal life, which is why I’ve hardly been ill over the last few years. Yes, I’ve picked up the odd runny nose or what-have-you, but I’ve never had a Flu shot and won’t ever get one. After all, as Tom Cowan has said, there isn’t convincing evidence that Flu is caused by a virus.
Before you knee-jerk, take a listen to his argument.
Think about the following.
Why is there a strong correlation between unhealthier individuals and increased illness?
If your answer is
“Because they have weaker immune systems.“
then you’ve suggested that a healthy ecosystem matters more… Read more »
“British businesses” indeed, take that to mean the corporate blob and likely nothing to do with Britain except as, offshore businesses overseas employers.
As the evidence mounts, irrefutable facts, that taking the jab is dangerous and even deadly, why tf are these people not listening?
OTOH, the govt should just outlaw mandatory vaccines (and passports/discrimination), but they won’t of course, as that would be an admission of failure and culpability, because as is now patently clear, they don’t work (not ‘effective’) and are net-harmful (not ‘safe’), and would open up their pals in BigPharma to massive lawsuits. The govt have essentially made a rod for our backs.
They won’t be outlawing them because the vaxx passports aren’t off the agenda…EU and WHO are busy developing them to be rolled out worldwide when the next ‘pandemic’ is declared by WHO. The mandates will be part of the universal system.
For the “more than one in five of employers (21%) [who] said yes”, they should now be asked “why” they deem it necessary and required to cite the evidence showing a benefit, “why” they think consent is not necessary and *all* the information showing the risks; “whether” managers are going to personally accept liability for any injury/death, and asked “why” they think the Nuremburg and UNESCO conventions were created.
Doubling down on insanity. Reminiscent of Bolshevik mentality.
”….we do need to bear in mind that it’s an online Yougov poll”.
And that that’s Mr Yougov Zahawi’s outfit.
Well, there’s going to an awful lot of court cases then. I think this is not lawful. Certainly there are no laws that say that you have to be jabbed so it’s discriminatory along lines of “No Blacks, No Irish”. 1950s Britain.
May we have a list of those employers so that we may boycott them?
I suspect it isn’t 1/5. Because no employer is going to risk losing a qualified worker in this economy over a vaccine that is only partly effective and more dangerous the value for those under 40. And how many jabs would you require?
No, I think this is a classic example of businesses saying “the right thing” with no intention to actually do it. Sadly that reinforces the idea that vaccination is necessary. But, it’s probably only 1:10, and those workers they let go will find a new job, perhaps with a bump in pay.
This is just part of the ‘back door’ method of getting the vaxx passes/digital ID in……’outsourcing’ is the new way of governing, none more so than the planned big outsource to the WHO. No recourse for complaint because ‘buck passing’ becomes infinite.
The future whole picture, which has yet to be revealed, after, as many that can be vaccinated are: The Hydrogel patent US8415325B2 is listed in the Moderna patent, here. Hydrogels are also mentioned in a second Moderna patent, here. Hydrogel is listed in the Johnson & Johnson patent, here. Hydrogels are made from Graphene Oxide. Nobody can deny the evidence that Graphene Oxide is in the shots.
GMO HUMANS
All the Covid-19 “vaccine” patents mention gene deletion. All the patents except one, mention “complimentary DNA” (cDNA). cDNA is a chimeric mRNA cocktail that’s being coded into Human cells using artificial genetic sequences in cross-species genomics.
According to the US Supreme Court ruling in 2013, altering Humans with cDNA makes them patent eligible. The court documents show that cDNA is made using modified bacterium and Supreme Court judges ruled it patent eligible. This means that a plant, animal or Human, could be patented and owned if first genetically modified with cDNA.
Mark Steele summarized it perfectly by stating:
In the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that vaccinated people worldwide are products, patented goods, according to US law, no longer human. Through a modified DNA or RNA vaccination, the mRNA vaccination,… Read more »
Not getting Covid is this easy – I can prove my facts, 28.5 years never ill from viruses – on my life, the truth of that: 3 minutes from preparation to job done!!
Everything else you have read, or heard, is totally irrelevant – how simple is that?
Covid Crusher: Mix one heaped teaspoon of Iodine table salt in a mug of warm clean water, cup a hand and sniff or snort the entire mugful up your nose, spitting out anything which comes down into your mouth. If sore, then you have a virus, so continue morning noon and night, or more often if you want, until the soreness goes away (2-3 minutes) then blow out your nose and flush away, washing your hands afterwards, until when you do my simple cure, you don’t have any soreness at all, when you flush – job done. Also swallow a couple of mouthfuls of salt water and if you have burning in your lungs, salt killing virus and pneumonia, there too.
My simple salt water cure, kills all Coronaviruses and viruses, as soon as you think you have an infection, or while self isolating, before the viruses mutate into the disease in… Read more »
I’ll bet that 20% are all public sector employers
Last count > 20 million adults have had no jab, plus>10 million more took only one dose of the poison, employers will be paddling in a very shallow recruitment pool if they do insist. From my experience of the workplace it is already incredibly difficult to attract credible candidates who don’t want/need wet nursing constantly.
Despite the ongoing identification of serious adverse events and deaths post covid jabs, one has to ask how any company thinks they can mandate these dangerous experimental biologicals. Surely it is against the law to FORCE anyone to take an experimental biological. Stop supporting businesses who mandate covid vaxx for their employees. IKEA, American Airlines are on my list. Capt Robert Snow, had a heat attack, six minutes after landing his American Airlines aircraft in Texas earlier this year. He had a few hundred passengers on board. This is happening to pilots. Capt Snow was resuscitated on the flight deck, survived his heart attack and is now on the speaking circuit discussing the fact that he and his doctors believe the mandatory covid experimental biological caused his heart to stop. He was interviewed by Del Bigtree on the Highwire last night. He is NOT ALONE? By the way, American Airlines never even picked up the phone to ask Capt. Snow how he was. If you think CO’s really care about your well being, this is just one example of…..they don’t. See cdc VAERS, UK yellow card. Makes for an eye watering read.
Simple then. One fifth of employers will find it difficult to recruit. Some woke geniuses at board level by the looks of it.🙄
What’s with this discouraging headline? Why not write: “Hardly More Than 20%,” rather than “More Than a Fifth?”
Meanwhile:
COVID UPDATE: What is the truth? – PMC (nih.gov)
Alternative headline: Nearly four-fifths of employers have learnt something from the covid shitshow.
“Acas commissioned YouGov”. I stopped reading right there.
“ACAS commissioned YouGov”…. you need read no further – it’s total b*ll*cks !
4/5ths of employers being logical and informed
Slightly O/T but does anyone, e.g. Kate or Swedenborg, know more about the polio vaccine that ‘went wrong’ 60 years ago for *over 100 million* people?
https://nicolestefko.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/httpwww-realfarmacy-comcdc-admits-98-million-americans-received-polio-vaccine-contaminated-with-cancer-virus/
The problem affected above all the USA but also the UK, Italy and the USSR.
IIRC, they brewed these things up on minced up monkey kidney, and of course transferred a whole bunch of unknowns as this was before cross-species transfer was known about. Using different animal species has taken place since Jenner’s time, so with 200 years of this practice the medical profession has probably damaged the human race irreparably. I read that there was a lot of childhood leukaemia in the 1960s and 70s, probably due to the vaxes.
Working for yourself was always better than having a boss anyway.
If this encourages more people to go down that route, then that’s all for the better.
Of course ACAS would say this. Apart from anything else, theyll be trying to sell courses on ‘pressuring your employees to get jabbed without looking like that’s what you’re doing’ and ‘how to avoid taking the blame for injuries from jabs you’ve coerced your employees to take’.
They’ll also be hoping to increase the number of dispues they adjudicate on … anything to increase the numbers and therefore increase the government grant.
It’s fertile ground for them.
Interview with Steve Kirsch
American Airlines Captain Robert Snow speaks out about his vaccine injuryHe almost died after landing an American Airlines plane.
He’s now disabled, pissed, and speaking out about how they forced him to take the vaccine that ended his career.
Other pilots are flying injured just like he is, putting your life at risk.
https://rumble.com/v14r4zs-american-airlines-captain-robert-snow-speaks-out-about-his-vaccine-injury.html
‘Fear of flying’ is back…big time! (Helps the BS Carbon Zero agenda!)
In this interview with Snow, Kirsch mentions that according to his analysis of the VAERS data, one dose of the J&J vax is twice as dangerous as two doses of Pfizer, with the Moderna coming somewhere in between.
Snow took the J&J because he believed a single vax would be safer than injections which required boosters.
At 30 mins
Remember the nutter who crashed his plane over the Alps…As someone said, I’d rather fly with a ‘Heart Case’ than fly with a ‘Nut Case’.
5 min clip of interview with Dr Fleming.
Gain-of-Function: Why it’s Unlikely COVID-19 Originated From a Bat With Dr. Richard Fleming
https://rumble.com/v1553vz-gain-of-function-why-its-unlikely-covid-19-originated-from-a-bat-with-dr.-r.html
There is no evidence that Covid-19 is naturally occurring, asserts Dr. Richard Fleming. There is, however, evidence of US governments owning patents for gain-of-function research.
So four fifths don’t – so tell the others to go to hell !
Taking a Gates – Fauci sponsored poison jab to keep your job …well. it it’s your your choice! ( or so they like to pretend!)
There are thankfully still some decent employers around who respect basic Human Rights!