The realities of vaccination

CAN employers make it mandatory for staff to get vaccinated against Covid-19? Are workers protected against discrimination - or loss of their jobs - in the workplace if they refuse the jab? With both vaccine and virus still clouded in many unknowns, the implications of not getting the shot are very much still up in the air. Airlines are starting to require proof of vaccination, and many employers are nudging staff with incentives to get inoculated, for their own safety as well as that of customers and clients.

In time, those who decide not to get vaccinated may face the unpleasant reality that they will be treated differently, as employers, institutions and businesses figure out how to move forward out of the pandemic. We look at the issues in Brunch this Saturday in The Business Times Weekend.

What does a luggage giant do when an outbreak shuts down international travel worldwide? Paul Melkebeke, Samsonite's president for Asia-Pacific and Middle East, is staying focused on the company's long-term goals, as he tells us in The Raffles Conversation.

Big government is back. And in a crisis, that may be the most effective government. Yet at all times, the relationship between the state and private enterprise is a delicate one. In Fine Print, our columnist reviews ex-Cabinet minister Lim Hwee Hua's new book, Government in Business: Leading or Lagging?.

In conventional retirement planning, advisers often assume clients' annual expenses remain flat in their retirement years. But research shows there is in fact spending volatility, and your retirement and investment strategies should be able to cope with this volatility, writes our Money Wisdom columnist.

And on our Health page, a cardiologist answers an indelicate question: When is sex "too stressful" for your heart?

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