Quarter of employers refuse sick pay for Covid vaccine side effects

A survey of 2,000 businesses carried out by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) found that 26% had not been paying full sick pay to staff members who had taken time off following the Covid-19 jab and with no plans to change this.  Half the businesses surveyed were already paying this, while 6% that had not been offering this support had plans to do so in future.  The remaining 12% did not know what their future policy would be at the time of the survey.  When asked whether they gave time off for staff to attend the Covid-19 vaccine appointments, 59...