Employment rights offer UK immunity to mandatory workplace Covid jabs

A growing list of US businesses are demanding that their staff be immunised but corporate culture, and law, differ in Britain

CNN hit the headlines on Friday after firing three employees who went into work unvaccinated against Covid-19, in what it called a violation of company policy. The US media organisation requires all staff entering its offices or working on assignments with other team members to be fully immunised.

The news network is at the more extreme end of corporate America's response to the recent surge of the coronavirus Delta variant, in a country where vaccination take-up rates have split down party lines.