A leading business representative group has said employers should be allowed to ask if employees are vaccinated before deciding if they can return to offices - saying businesses will be acting "irresponsibly" if they fail to do so.
The Irish Small and Medium Enterprise association (ISME) issued the call despite civil liberties groups warning it would "discriminate" against unvaccinated people and breach their rights, and the Office of the Data Protection Commission saying people do not have to reveal their private health information.
The issue of whether employers can or cannot ask employees if they have been vaccinated against Covid-19 gained international prominence in recent days after US media giant CNN terminated the contracts of three