Vaccine rollout: Can your employer force you to be vaccinated? Know your contract rights

Recently, Charlie Mullins, the chairman of Pimlico Plumbers, caused controversy as he detailed his firm planned to rewrite their worker’s contracts to require them to be vaccinated against coronavirus.

Should staff refuse, Pimlico Plumbers detailed it would decide on a case-by-case basis whether workers would be kept on.

News of this may worry workers across the UK, especially those who are scheduled to receive a vaccine last.

Fortunately, Vanessa James, a Partner at Ashfords, broke down the legal legitimacy of this: “Whether an employer’s mandatory requirement for employees to have a Covid-19 vaccine places an employer at risk of legal action will be determined by the reasonableness of the requirement itself and how it is imposed on a case by case basis rather than just amending the employment contract.

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