Aldi employee who lost his job for refusing a Covid vaccine blames company's refusal of ethics code


 

Aldi employee sacked for refusing to get a Covid vaccine slams store for refusing to accept a legal argument he PERSONALLY researched

  • Aldi worker took to TikTok after he lost his job over vaccine mandate
  • He said that Aldi had not recognised the Nuremberg Code of medical ethics 
  • The 1947 code relates to voluntary informed consent to human experiments 
  • It has been used by anti-mandate protestors to oppose vaccine mandates
  • Aldi said safety of workers and shoppers was at the forefront of its decisions 


An Aldi worker who lost his job after refusing to receive a Covid vaccine blamed his sacking on the company’s failure to recognise a 75-year-old medical ethics code. 

In a video posted to TikTok the employee in a blue Aldi polo and wearing a name tag identifying him as ‘Rick’, is seen leaving one of the German grocery giant’s stores. 

‘Aldi Australia just told me that the Nuremberg Code doesn’t apply to them,’ he says to camera.

‘[Because] that was the only thing holding them back from firing me.

‘They said that their lawyers decided that the Nuremberg code doesn’t apply to them at all.’

An Aldi employee said he had been sacked because 'Aldi Australia just told me that the Nuremberg Code doesn't apply to them'. The Nuremberg Code is a set of medical ethics drafted after World War II

An Aldi employee said he had been sacked because ‘Aldi Australia just told me that the Nuremberg Code doesn’t apply to them’. The Nuremberg Code is a set of medical ethics drafted after World War II

The Nuremberg Code is a set of medical ethics drafted after World War II to provide guidance on medical research and human clinical trials.

It has been seized on by anti-vaccination and anti-mandate activists around the world as justification for resisting compulsory requirements to receive a Covid vaccine. 

The code was considered necessary after the discovery doctors working for the Nazi regime in Germany had performed barbaric experiments in concentration camps during the war.

A key requirement of the 10-point code was the need for medical practitioners to seek ‘legally valid voluntary consent’ to the conduct of human ‘experiments’. 

The code was superseded by the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki in 1964 as well as other subsequent ethical codes.

Its use by anti-vaccination advocates depends on characterising Covid-19 vaccines as ‘experimental’. 

‘The can go ahead and continue firing me, which I’m not too upset about, but the fact that Aldi Australia does not recognise the Nuremberg Code – that should scare everyone,’ Rick said in the social media post. 

An Aldi Australia spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia that a safe environment for employees and shoppers was at the forefront of its decision-making as an essential service.

Aldi said it had required all employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 because it was an essential service

Aldi said it had required all employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 because it was an essential service

‘Our view is that requiring all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is the best measure to ensure the health and safety of our teams and our customers,’ the spokesperson said. 

In replies to comments on the post, the employee said he had given Aldi Australia a list of legal questions contradicting their stance.

‘They refused to answer all of them,’ he wrote. 

He also confirmed he had been let go for not observing the company’s vaccine mandate for employees, which it started to roll out last October.

‘I’m getting fired solely for not complying with the mandate,’ he wrote.

‘It wasn’t in my contract that I had to get injected to keep my job.’ 

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