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🌱Vegans will be exempt from compulsory Covid-19 vaccines in the workplace.

🔒It comes after a tribunal last year ruled ethical veganism to be a protected belief

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🌱More than half a million vegans in the UK will be exempt if companies introduce compulsory vaccination rules.

🧑‍⚖️According to legal experts, their beliefs are protected by employment law...

❌That means employers could risk legal action if they order staff to be vaccinated

🔴Ethical vegans morally object to the exploitation of animals

💉The actual doses of vaccine available in the UK do not contain ingredients derived from animals…

💭Yet for some, the use of animal testing in the development of the shots infringes on their beliefs

🗣️"Some ethical vegans may disagree with vaccinations on the basis that they will inevitably have been tested on animals," a spokesperson for law firm Lewis Silkin said

🗣️"Ethical veganism has previously been found by an [employment tribunal] to amount to a belief, capable of being protected," the legal spokesperson said

🔴The warnings underline the challenge faced by the Government, as it flirts with making Covid vaccines mandatory to avoid future lockdowns

💼Employment lawyers say a row looms for companies that want to demand their staff get jabbed...

❌It marks a conflict between individual rights and office health and safety requirements

🔎Read more on why compulsory vaccination rules cannot apply to vegans here 👇

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