No pay with reaction to the COVID19 vaccine AZjab

Chaztheboo123

Am I eligible to any form of support for going off sick from the Az jab vaccine reacted quite bad

Niv

If you are ill surely SSP? I don't think there is anything else.

silvercar

What would your company give you if you were off Sick after the flu jab or any other jab? The same would apply. Symptoms rather than cause. If you can’t work because you have a temperature, it is the temperature that determines whether you are entitled to sick pay not it’s cause.
if it makes you feel better, studies are showing that there is less reaction to the second AZ vaccine than the first. So hopefully you won’t have such a severe reaction for your next dose.

KxMx

I hope so, all my side effects resolved in 3 days apart from the injection site.
I always react badly there for flu jab, so maybe not a surprise but now my good arm (right) is getting worse not better, having to do so much with my left arm which is bad anyway, and now protesting about the extra work.
I'm right handed. 

superbigal

KxMx said:

I hope so, all my side effects resolved in 3 days apart from the injection site.
I always react badly there for flu jab, so maybe not a surprise but now my good arm (right) is getting worse not better, having to do so much with my left arm which is bad anyway, and now protesting about the extra work.
I'm right handed. 

I get vaccinated tomorrow, but i assumed you get vaccinated in your less used arm.

Browntoa

Yes , you are asked which arm to inject

Diamandis

Might be worth arranging your jabs in future for a Friday afternoon (or another day before you have a break, depending on shifts) if you know you tend to have bad reactions to these things.

KxMx

Yes you can choose your vaccinated arm, I am right handed and my right arm is my good arm, I cannot be injected into my bad left arm, just had to have bp taken yesterday from left through sheer necessity and it didn't go well!

Appreciate I'm the exception and not the rule though 🙃

I was vaccinated Sunday so hopefully it will stop getting worse soon and improve, others I've spoken to said the arm reaction went after about a week. 

Am used to tugging spring coat off left arm it's very weird tugging it off both at the moment lol. 

od244051

My employer will pay sick pay without affecting sickness record for both vaccines.

It’s a way for them to encourage all employees to get vaccinated 

PixelPound

Flu like symptoms after the jab could actually be the virus if you caught it, so can't assume side effects.

Can check with your employer. I know mine are allowing people to take the time off to get the jab and not have to work it back, to not put any blocks in people getting it. We did have a big zoom conference about the plan for return to work once lockdown lifted and someone did ask if they have to get the jab before allowed to return - some people still resisting the jab!!

DCFC79

The day after I had the jab I had side effects of feeling like I had the flu and that was it.
I asked which arm they were going to inject it in so I cant say if they were going to ask the question.

In answer to the thread title are your employers willing to give you time off if you do have side effects, my employer were doing so but I wasnt aware of it.