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Moral Obligation: Are Clinic Staff Who Don't Get Vaccinated Threatened To Be Dismissed?

2020-12-13T16:44:53.589Z


There is no compulsory vaccination against the coronavirus in Germany. Can medical staff who do not want to be vaccinated still be dismissed as a result?


There is no compulsory vaccination against the coronavirus in Germany.

Can medical staff who do not want to be vaccinated still be dismissed as a result?

  • The

    vaccinations

    *

    against the

    coronavirus

    * should

    start

    in the coming year at the latest

    .

  • There

    will be

    no

    compulsory vaccination

    in

    Germany

    .

  • Is there

    still at least a moral obligation

    for

    hospital staff

    to get

    vaccinated

    ?

Munich - by the German company

BioNTech *

co-developed

vaccine

*

against the

coronavirus

SARS-CoV-2

is considered to be light at the end of the tunnel in the fight against

the pandemic

, which holds the world since spring in breath.

The responsible politicians repeated at public meetings for the vaccinations due in 2021, however, like a prayer wheel that there

would be

no

compulsory vaccination

for the population

in

Germany

.

Bavaria's

Prime Minister Markus Söder

(CSU) recently spoke of a vaccination “requirement” for people who come

together

with

risk groups at

work.

Above all medical specialists and

doctors

.

So is there a

risk of

compulsory vaccination

through the back door

in

Germany

or is there a

fundamental moral obligation

for

hospital staff

to get vaccinated?

The

Bayerischer Rundfunk

magazine “controvers”

dealt

with these questions

.

Coronavirus: Is there a moral obligation to vaccinate hospital staff in Germany?

“If someone is in a

nursing profession

and he comes very much closer to other people, he violates this moral duty in several ways for me.

Above all, he hurts her by not fulfilling his role model function, ”says Prof. Nikolaus Knoepffler, who

sits

on the Bavarian

Ethics Council

.

Medical

professionals in

particular

should set a good example and

demonstrate the relevance of

vaccinations

to

the population

, says the expert.

Presentation of the corona vaccination center in Nuremberg with Federal Minister @jensspahn.

Our vaccination logistics are ready: 99 vaccination centers in Bavaria for 33,000 vaccinations per day at the start.

This is a day of hope, even if we have to continue to live with Corona for the time being.

pic.twitter.com/rLrksz5j4G

- Markus Söder (@Markus_Soeder) December 11, 2020

However

, there are also isolated voices

from

doctors

and medical

professionals

who oppose the moral

obligation to vaccinate

.

"They are indeed doctors, but they are also completely normal people, completely normal citizens who have the same fears as our patients," says

family doctor

Dr.

Karl Ludwig Maier.

For him, however, the most important thing is

to find “good togetherness” in the population

regardless of the

vaccination

.

Refuse corona vaccination: Can medical professionals face dismissal?

But what does the situation look like apart from moral obligations with regard to labor law?

Threatening

hospital staff

that a

vaccination

waived, possibly even the

termination

?

From a legal point of view, this step would be possible, says Richard Giesen, professor of labor law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

“In principle, the

employer is

already legally obliged to keep his employees as healthy as possible and to maintain healthy

working conditions

.

If there are no longer any employment opportunities for such an employee who has not had himself

vaccinated

, then the worst possible consequence would be personal

dismissal

, ”explains the legal expert.

But even if you

ignore vaccination requirements

, moral obligations and personal consequences, one fact remains clear.

Only with a sufficient

willingness

to

vaccinate

in the population can the

vaccine

become a successful project * and actually serve as a light at the end of the tunnel.

(fd) * merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editors network

List of rubric lists: © Graeme Robertson / Pool PA / dpa

Source: merkur

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