>> If they are not convinced by now, any further advice, guidance, scare tactics etc is
>> likely to reinforce the view that it is all a conspiracy.
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>> The stick needs to be deployed - prioritise other critical treatment (cancer etc) over the
>> unvaccinated, no foreign travel, no job if employer decides vaccination is mandatory, no sick pay,
>> no new universal credit.
The refusers are not by any means all conspiracy nut jobs. Plenty of them have real and, at least to them, justified concerns about the vaccines. They don't grasp the numbers and probability around side effects; they have other health conditions; they have an honest belief that the vaccines have been rushed to market too quickly.
Hitting them with a stick doesn't help.
Sackings by employers need to be lawful. Statutory Sick Pay (less than £100/week) is a legal right but employers who offer a contractual top up might justify amending contracts so that's not payable if you get Covid and are without good reason for being vaccinated.
Benefit rules already allow for those leaving work without good reason to be sanctioned. I've dealt with a couple of refusers dismissed from care homes, I've warned them that sanctions might happen. No reports I'm aware of where they've actually been sanctioned.
Opinions on adviser forums vary from sanctions being at least a real possibility to being so remote the risk can be dismissed.
Easy to say no new claims but you should partners or children go cold/hungry over the real worries (or even pig headedness) of one person on the rest of the household?
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Tue 7 Dec 21 at 19:47
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