This is a really serious issue challenging employers, large and small, at the moment. Two similar but different issues; consider:
- employer allows unvaccinated employees to work alongside fully vaccinated people,
- employer allows unvaccinated customers normal accccess to premises.
Employee develops covid, which turns to long covid, which becomes life changing, claims she was infected by an unvaccinated fellow worker. Can the employee sue the boss for negligence for unecessarily exposing them to covid? [It could involve long term support, plus massive legal fees]
I do not know the answer to this question. But I do know that there is an army of lawyers looking for the opportunity to find out.
Next question; if any employer decides to lock out all unvaccinated people, then who is the policeman? What is his authority? Would this breach competition law?