I’m looking for legal advice on a none-public department of the NHS forcing a new member of staff to be vaccinated. Reading through the contract, a small section springs out that dictates the new member of staff must be vaccinated against infectious disease.
I’ll omit certain parts of the section I’m about to post here to best protect the identity of the person who this involves, but following is the section of contract that is very concerning.
9. MEDICAL EXAMINATION
It is a condition of employed that, if required;
(i) You submit to a medical examination and to any appropriate tests, medical imaging or other diagnostic procedures, at any time by the Trust’s occupational health service or such registered and licenced medical practitioner that the Trust may select. You shall permit any report of such examination to be disclosed to the Trust.
(ii) You must be immunised against infection as deemed necessary at any time by the [locality of…] NHS Foundation Trust. You are responsible for notifying your manager if you have come into contact with any infectious disease.
Can someone point me in the direction of good legal advice on this?
Hasn't this always been there as lots of staff are expected to have Hep and other vaccinations?
Hi There
I am wondering about the liability that the employer may face.
If you are harmed by the vaccine can you sue them for damages?
Obscenely you cannot sue the manufacturer because they are indemnified - however, especially for no health based industries, I think the employer should be liable.
What s the legal position on that?
Hasn't this always been there as lots of staff are expected to have Hep and other vaccinations?
That may be the case with front-line staff, but the person who this concerns will be working in an office environment 2 days a week, the rest at home (for the foreseeable future).
Hi There
I am wondering about the liability that the employer may face.
If you are harmed by the vaccine can you sue them for damages?
Obscenely you cannot sue the manufacturer because they are indemnified - however, especially for no health based industries, I think the employer should be liable.
What s the legal position on that?
Good point, though I imagine the employer would shrug their shoulders and say you can't prove your illness is due to the vaccine.
Advice from a Barrister on how to deal with vax demands from your employer or anyone else:
Contact your doctor and book a Vaccine anxiety appointment. At this point you become a medical case as anxiety is a real issue. Then collect information about adverse effects and send that to you doctor and get them to answer your concerns. If they don't answer then claim this gives you further anxiety.
Then ask your doctor to agree to a thorough medical for you BEFORE any injection so if you are made to have the injection you have baseline medical evidence from medical experts to prove it affected you adversely if it does. If they refuse, claim further anxiety.
Then say you want a contract with the doctor administering the injection and their practice having full liability if you are medically poorly for up to end of life. The doctor will refuse this proving the vaccine might be unsafe and that ADDS to your anxiety.
While this is all going on tell your employer you are looking in to it with advice from your doctor. YOU WILL WIN!! Anyone that does this will win. Use it. I have a degree in law and this is the process I have applied. It works! 🙂 (Copy and paste where ever you like anyone).
