Tue Jan 11, 2022 – 4:24 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer, has revealed plans to withhold full sick pay for any of its U.K.-based staff who haven’t taken a COVID shot if they are forced to isolate at home after coming into contact with a person who has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
A report in the Mail on Sunday showed that the company, which employs over 10,000 people across 21 warehouse-sized stores in Britain, intends to cut sick pay benefits to workers who have not taken an experimental shot for COVID-19 if they are forced to isolate at home. Full benefits will still be afforded to the “fully vaccinated.”
As things stand in the U.K., anyone who has not received one of the abortion-tainted COVID shots is required to isolate for ten days if they are contacted by the National Health Service’s (NHS) Track and Trace team, informing them of their contact with a person who has tested positive for the virus. Anyone who has received a COVID jab is no longer required to quarantine, according to the ever-shifting coronavirus rulings.
Under British law the Swedish multinational company is still required to pay a minimum Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) to anyone who must take time away from work owing to the government quarantine requirement, meaning they could pay as little as £96.35 ($131) per week of absence. According
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