The title of the petition is “Prohibit employers from requiring staff to be vaccinated against Covid-19”. It had received 174,365 signatures as at 20 January 2022 [9.05am] and will close on 1 May 2022. The full text is as follows:
Make it illegal for any employer to mandate vaccination for its employees. This should apply to all public sector (including the NHS, armed forces, care workers), third sector and all private sector.
We believe making vaccination a condition of employment undermines the principle of informed consent. All British people should have the right to bodily autonomy and must never be coerced into receiving a medical intervention they may not want.
Any medical intervention must always be with properly informed consent (awareness of risks vs benefits) and be free of coercion (whether explicit or implicit).
The Government responded on 25 November 2021. It focused on the “strong public health rationale” for making vaccination a condition of deployment in limited high-risk settings and reiterated that employers proposing to require staff to be vaccinated would need to consult the “existing legal framework”.
There is no law mandating Covid-19 vaccination in the UK.
There is no general or blanket law requiring employees to be vaccinated; nor is there any general law requiring employers to mandate vaccination of their staff.
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