Vaccines and staff a legal mess in the workplace
Peter Strong (The Australian)
The rollout of the COVID vaccines is an important process. The sooner the population is vaccinated the sooner we can get the economy back to some sort of normality.
However, the vaccine creates serious issues for employers and their employees due to the ethical requirements of society and the legal demands of workplace relations and occupational health and safety regulations. There will be situations in which employers will need to be able to stand down workers, without pay, who decline to access a COVID vaccine.