Can’t wait for BOYCOTTMORRISONS on Twitter, those trending topics are always fun
NOTE: This is about unvaxxed people having to isolate because of exposure, not for people who are actually sick.
No one ever reads the article and sees what it’s actually about with these sickpay things.
Good.
If my staff choose to make themselves and others sick, I’d sack them.
My other halves employer doesn’t even let people claim sick pay. It’s just unpaid.
As you aren’t sick.
So torn on this – I want as many people to be vaccinated as possible but am skeptical that big companies just use this sort of stuff as an excuse to cut costs.
Yay the anti vaxxer weirdos will boycott the place so I can get my shopping quicker
Morrisons pay more sick pay per hour than boohoo sweatshops and people still mad.
Most places give SSP and that’s it. Good luck being isolated and your worker gives you 96 pounds a week.
A good first step. Next, folks who smoke. Folks who are obese. Folks who partake in risky hobbies. Folks with a low social credit score.
Why should Morrisons have to pay sick pay to its workers? Has nobody considered Morrisons in all of this?
Imagine my shock, bearing witness to a left leaning sub applauding as a massive company screws over its employees.
And yes, I’ve read the article. Discriminating on the basis of vaccination status is morally wrong. It’s isolation for now, they’ll roll it out to other things soon enough.
Regardless of your views all this will do is lead to unvaccinated staff going to work with covid and not telling anyone.
On one hand, anti-vaxxing is stupid and selfish. On the other I’m deeply uncomfortable with the idea that a corporation can effectively force people to put things into their body that they don’t want to. On balance I don’t think this should be legal.
How does Morrison’s know the private medical status of its staff in the first place?
Genuine question, does an employer (or anyone, for that matter) even have the right to know what my vaccine status is? If it’s a medical procedure that I’d rather keep to myself, am I entitled to do that?
Does an employer have the right to know if an employee is on the pill? Or if they are taking antidepressants? Or what stage of their cancer treatment they are at? Why is this injection any different?
I guess I’m simply asking if this can fall under some form of medical confidentiality?
So I’ve had 3 jabs (so far) before Y’all jump down my throat, but that was a personal choice, I’m not going to try to berate anyone else into making the choice I did.
With that or of the way, you hardcore folks trying to get others to take the vaccine are gonna feel pretty fucking stupid if it turns out there are unforeseen long term side effects…
I kinda agree with this. At work we had a guy who in a three week period worked less than a week as he had to self-isolate twice, so not only is he having some paid Xbox time whilst we work, the rest of us are having to pick up the slack. Just like freedom of speech you get freedom of choice, but not freedom from consequences. Don’t get vax’ed, fine, but don’t expect to get the same or better benefits as those that do.
Great news! Now unvaccinated Morrison’s staff won’t use test and trace if they can’t afford to isolate.
How does anyone think this is a good move?
Shouting into the wind here, but my god the amount of pure hatred for people that aren’t vaccinated. I get it 6 months ago, but now the vast majority of those ending up hospitalised are old and unvaccinated. They’re only hurting themselves.
They are, however, putting pressure on the NHS. But so are a million other lifestyle choices. Imagine the shaming and hatred put towards overweight people, smokers, people with dangerous hobbies etc. It would be sick.
I’m fully vaccinated and booked for my booster before anybody says otherwise.
I don’t think that it is right for Morrisons to cut sick pay for employees who are not vaccinated. It is their right to choose whether or not to be vaccinated, and they should not be punished for that choice.
This doesn’t seem like something a democratically unaccountable private company should be allowed to do.
Cant wait for 24 hours of BOYCOTTMORRISONS only to be forgotten by next week.
Wouldn’t you just go in and infect people if you’re not gonna get paid while isolating? I figured paying people while isolating made sense for companies (especially those paying close to minimum wage) to stop the staff being incentivised to come in and infect their colleagues.
Edit: after reading the article it looks like it’s people isolating after being told to by NHS app but testing negative. Doesn’t really change the above though, there still seems to be incentive to not isolate when you’re meant to.
I agree anti-vaxers are a pain, and yes they are exposing themselves to more risk by not getting vaccinated however, you could argue that morrisons should dock a smokers pay when they take time off for COPD flare ups… it is dangerous to discriminate on these grounds. I’d also like to add that these companies should be paying much higher wages to their staff – £10 per hour is not enough considering the companies turnover/ profits. They should be paying min of £14 per hour…
I’m endlessly amazed at the British publics taste for authoritarianism, as long as it’s directed at someone else.
Same thing occured with Austerity. Media/state blame ‘X’ and 80% of the public pile on and give them a good kicking.
What they NEVER get is how it’s just a technique to generally introduce a significant decline in standard of living.
So government bad for encroaching on personal freedoms but megacorporation good for doing the same? Am I missing something?
This is just predatory corporate behaviour to up profits at the expense of their employee wellbeing. They’re a shit supermarket but even less reason to go there now. This will backfire.
Nah. Don’t care. Unless you have a genuine medical reason for not getting vaxed, you can fuck off. My wife is an ICU nurse. Felt her tears trickle onto my face too many times in the last two years. No vax. Fuck off. You get nothing. No pubs, no sporting events, restaurants, and they should pay for they’re hospitals treatments.
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Can’t wait for BOYCOTTMORRISONS on Twitter, those trending topics are always fun
NOTE: This is about unvaxxed people having to isolate because of exposure, not for people who are actually sick.
No one ever reads the article and sees what it’s actually about with these sickpay things.
Good.
If my staff choose to make themselves and others sick, I’d sack them.
My other halves employer doesn’t even let people claim sick pay. It’s just unpaid.
As you aren’t sick.
So torn on this – I want as many people to be vaccinated as possible but am skeptical that big companies just use this sort of stuff as an excuse to cut costs.
Yay the anti vaxxer weirdos will boycott the place so I can get my shopping quicker
Morrisons pay more sick pay per hour than boohoo sweatshops and people still mad.
Most places give SSP and that’s it. Good luck being isolated and your worker gives you 96 pounds a week.
A good first step. Next, folks who smoke. Folks who are obese. Folks who partake in risky hobbies. Folks with a low social credit score.
Why should Morrisons have to pay sick pay to its workers? Has nobody considered Morrisons in all of this?
Imagine my shock, bearing witness to a left leaning sub applauding as a massive company screws over its employees.
And yes, I’ve read the article. Discriminating on the basis of vaccination status is morally wrong. It’s isolation for now, they’ll roll it out to other things soon enough.
Regardless of your views all this will do is lead to unvaccinated staff going to work with covid and not telling anyone.
On one hand, anti-vaxxing is stupid and selfish. On the other I’m deeply uncomfortable with the idea that a corporation can effectively force people to put things into their body that they don’t want to. On balance I don’t think this should be legal.
How does Morrison’s know the private medical status of its staff in the first place?
Genuine question, does an employer (or anyone, for that matter) even have the right to know what my vaccine status is? If it’s a medical procedure that I’d rather keep to myself, am I entitled to do that?
Does an employer have the right to know if an employee is on the pill? Or if they are taking antidepressants? Or what stage of their cancer treatment they are at? Why is this injection any different?
I guess I’m simply asking if this can fall under some form of medical confidentiality?
So I’ve had 3 jabs (so far) before Y’all jump down my throat, but that was a personal choice, I’m not going to try to berate anyone else into making the choice I did.
With that or of the way, you hardcore folks trying to get others to take the vaccine are gonna feel pretty fucking stupid if it turns out there are unforeseen long term side effects…
I kinda agree with this. At work we had a guy who in a three week period worked less than a week as he had to self-isolate twice, so not only is he having some paid Xbox time whilst we work, the rest of us are having to pick up the slack. Just like freedom of speech you get freedom of choice, but not freedom from consequences. Don’t get vax’ed, fine, but don’t expect to get the same or better benefits as those that do.
Great news! Now unvaccinated Morrison’s staff won’t use test and trace if they can’t afford to isolate.
How does anyone think this is a good move?
Shouting into the wind here, but my god the amount of pure hatred for people that aren’t vaccinated. I get it 6 months ago, but now the vast majority of those ending up hospitalised are old and unvaccinated. They’re only hurting themselves.
They are, however, putting pressure on the NHS. But so are a million other lifestyle choices. Imagine the shaming and hatred put towards overweight people, smokers, people with dangerous hobbies etc. It would be sick.
I’m fully vaccinated and booked for my booster before anybody says otherwise.
I don’t think that it is right for Morrisons to cut sick pay for employees who are not vaccinated. It is their right to choose whether or not to be vaccinated, and they should not be punished for that choice.
This doesn’t seem like something a democratically unaccountable private company should be allowed to do.
Cant wait for 24 hours of BOYCOTTMORRISONS only to be forgotten by next week.
Wouldn’t you just go in and infect people if you’re not gonna get paid while isolating? I figured paying people while isolating made sense for companies (especially those paying close to minimum wage) to stop the staff being incentivised to come in and infect their colleagues.
Edit: after reading the article it looks like it’s people isolating after being told to by NHS app but testing negative. Doesn’t really change the above though, there still seems to be incentive to not isolate when you’re meant to.
I agree anti-vaxers are a pain, and yes they are exposing themselves to more risk by not getting vaccinated however, you could argue that morrisons should dock a smokers pay when they take time off for COPD flare ups… it is dangerous to discriminate on these grounds. I’d also like to add that these companies should be paying much higher wages to their staff – £10 per hour is not enough considering the companies turnover/ profits. They should be paying min of £14 per hour…
I’m endlessly amazed at the British publics taste for authoritarianism, as long as it’s directed at someone else.
Same thing occured with Austerity. Media/state blame ‘X’ and 80% of the public pile on and give them a good kicking.
What they NEVER get is how it’s just a technique to generally introduce a significant decline in standard of living.
So government bad for encroaching on personal freedoms but megacorporation good for doing the same? Am I missing something?
This is just predatory corporate behaviour to up profits at the expense of their employee wellbeing. They’re a shit supermarket but even less reason to go there now. This will backfire.
Nah. Don’t care. Unless you have a genuine medical reason for not getting vaxed, you can fuck off. My wife is an ICU nurse. Felt her tears trickle onto my face too many times in the last two years. No vax. Fuck off. You get nothing. No pubs, no sporting events, restaurants, and they should pay for they’re hospitals treatments.