With Australia transitioning into a recovery phase, there are
new areas of the working relationship which employers will need to
adjust to in the post-pandemic working environment.
There have been developments in recent weeks which have shed
light on new work paradigms which employers need to prepare
for.
No jab no work?
Recent developments in the race to create a vaccine for COVID-19
have yielded some promising results, with suggestions that a
vaccine may be ready by March 2021.While this is welcome news, it
brings up the question of whether in a post-pandemic working
environment it would be lawful and reasonable for employers to
direct employees to receive the vaccine.
As there is, to date, no vaccine available the closest example
we have of similar directions relate to other vaccinations such as
the flu. In the health sector, the Victorian Government introduced
the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of
Healthcare Workers) Act 2020 (Vic),
