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ARTICLE · 19 NOVEMBER 2021

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Employee vaccinations a complex decision for employers

Each business must closely scrutinise a range of factors before making a decision about mandatory employee vaccination.

AustraliaEmployment and HR

Like the Pat Benatar song, we are currently in a world where the majority of people are saying 'hit me with your best shot' and getting one of the vaccines for Coronavirus. There are still some people, however, who are unwilling or reluctant to get a vaccine.

All businesses, including those in regional areas, will be left with a difficult decision about what to do in relation to unvaccinated people, whether that is employees, contractors or customers.

The decision in relation to contactors and customers is a little easier than employees- if someone wants to, for example, make it a condition of a contractor working on a farm or a customer coming into a shop that they are vaccinated then it is a relatively straightforward exercise (although policing it may be another matter).

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