Quote: Saddened! "I think it will resolve itself, hopefully before too long. Do you not think the justification for mandatory vaccination is waning greatly if not entirely gone now? I totally understood the logic before Omicron, but not now. It's so good at getting past the vaccines to infect people that having the vaccine or not really doesn't impact anyone other than the person themselves. The necessity to take it to protect others really isn't there any more.
Clubs need to be careful with this, especially the clubs in the UK. It is not mandatory to have the vaccines to work here. There is definitely the potential for clubs who base contract decisions on vaccination status to be sued by the players for discrimination. I guess what happens in April with the 80,000 unvaccinated NHS staff will tell us a lot. If they go through with it then perhaps clubs will be able to. But if they call that off, it's hard to see how rugby clubs will get away with doing it.'"
You assume one of 2 things
1. Omicron is the last variant.
2. The next variant will be weaker as the virus runs out of steam
Both these theories have been scientifically debunked. What experts have said is that Omicron is potentially a precursor to another more deadly wave (like Delta) with the high infection rate of Omicron....then Vaccines come back into the fold.
As for the 'legalities', ambulance chasers will be licking their lips, but in reality, staff can be removed on "health" grounds. Customer facing staff put customers at risk, shop floor workers put their fellow workers at risk.....you've already seen it with sick pay for non vaxxed folk being cut to statutory......I'm no Lawyer, but I suspect it's full of risks.
The reality as here in NZ that fewer than 2.7% of staff were let go as a result of our vaccine passport mandates.....choice is the employees to make themselves unable to carry out their roles as per their contract.