Employers urged to accommodate young workers to get vaccinated

Taoiseach Micheál Martin at Páirc Uí Chaoimh for his second vaccine. Countries are in a race between vaccination and a Delta-driven wave of infection. File picture: Denis Minihane

Employers are being urged to be flexible in accommodating the vaccination of their staff so the immunisation programme can proceed as quickly as possible.

Business group Chambers Ireland said the issue was particularly important as the country is in a race between vaccination and a Delta-driven wave of infection that is spreading quickly through the younger, unvaccinated population.