Employers are creating vaccine databases of their workers to track who has been inoculated against the coronavirus.With some companies announcing they would either sack or refuse to hire people who will not take a Covid-19 vaccine, others are using IT systems to create a form of vaccine passport in the workplace to monitor the number of staff who have had the jab.
Workday, which provides payroll and other human resources software to 1,300 companies in the UK, and BrightHR, which works with 70,000 small businesses around the world, have both rolled out monitoring tools this month.
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BrightHR’s VaccTrak has been used so far by 1,200 people working in health and social care to inform their employers they have been vaccinated.
James Potts, BrightHR’s legal services director, said: “There’s a huge amount of knotty issues to navigate our way through. VaccTrak is a feature we think will provide employers invaluable support.”
He said the system provided a database for employers, as well as e-learning courses about the vaccines, “to dispel any myths”.
“We are helping employers define their own policy on the vaccine,” he said. “It’s not for us to dictate or make any kind of moral judgments. We don’t make decisions for our clients, but we want to help them to implement a policy.”
News Source/Full Article: The Guardian
