Employers warned
Article by February 12, 2021
Local businesses are being cautioned against using strong-arm tactics to ensure that employees and/or prospective employees accept COVID-19 vaccines, as it could well be against the law.
Describing the subject as “extremely complex” Executive Director of the Barbados Employers’ Confederation (BEC) Sheena Mayers-Granville could offer no firm position on whether one’s vaccination status could legally be used as a prerequisite for a job.
President of the Barbados Private Sector Association Edward Clarke, however, warned that while workers should not be forced, refusal to be vaccinated could result in more social and economic stagnation for the foreseeable future.
The Barbados Employers’ Confederation (BEC) has advised its membership that workers who are unable to fulfil their duties because they may be self-quarantined and awaiting secondary COVID-19 test results are eligible for sick leave and pay entitlements under the law. Executive director Sheena Mayers-Granville told the DAILY NATION yesterday that the BEC made this clear in a circular disseminated last week. The advice was given after Prime Minister Mia Amor …