With the current troubling Covid-19 cluster in NSW, and a deep
concern about the relatively low rates of vaccination of staff in
some industries which deal with the sick and the vulnerable, most
notably aged care, the issue of mandatory workplace vaccination has
gone from being an interesting theoretical consideration to a
matter of immediate practical concern.
This concern resulted in a National Cabinet Statement, issued on
28 June 2021, in relation to workers in aged care:
"The National Cabinet agreed to mandate that at least
the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine be administered by mid-September
2021 for all residential aged care workforce.
The National Cabinet agreed that COVID-19 vaccinations are
to be mandated for residential aged care workers as a condition of
working in an aged care facility through shared state, territory
and Commonwealth authorities and compliance
measures."
