{"id":2704,"date":"2021-09-01T14:46:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T04:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplacetraining.com.au\/2021\/09\/06\/covid-vaccines-in-the-workplace\/"},"modified":"2021-09-20T17:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T07:59:25","slug":"covid-vaccines-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplace.com.au\/2021\/09\/covid-vaccines-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Vaccines in the workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>As Australia\u2019s vaccine program ramps up, many employers\u00a0are asking questions about\u00a0whether or not\u00a0they can mandate COVID19 vaccinations as a condition of employment. The answer is, \u2018it\u00a0depends\u2019.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Fair Work Commission have provided some helpful industrial advice for employers to consider when forming policy positions on workplace vaccinations.\u00a0Fair Work recommend that\u00a0employers consider:<\/li>\n<li>\u201cwhether a specific law (such as a state or territory public health law) requires an employee to be vaccinated (see\u202fLegislation and public health orders requiring vaccination against coronavirus)<\/li>\n<li>whether an enterprise agreement, other registered agreement or employment contract includes a provision about requiring vaccinations<\/li>\n<li>if no law, agreement or employment contract applies that requires vaccination, whether it would be lawful and reasonable for an employer to give their employees a direction to be vaccinated (which is assessed on a\u00a0case by case\u00a0basis).\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Consideration regarding Occupational Health and Safety obligations should also be given. For more information and guidance on COVID-19 and employment law, visit the link below.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>https:\/\/coronavirus.fairwork.gov.au\/coronavirus-and-australian-workplace-laws\/covid-19-vaccinations-and-the-workplace\/covid-19-vaccinations-workplace-rights-and-obligations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID Vaccines in the workplace Vince Scopelliti &#8211; Wednesday, September 01, 2021 As Australia\u2019s vaccine program ramps up, many employers\u00a0are asking questions about\u00a0whether or not\u00a0they can mandate COVID19 vaccinations as a condition of employment. The answer is, \u2018it\u00a0depends\u2019. The Fair Work Commission have provided some helpful industrial advice for employers to consider when forming policy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[351,57,350,240,358,359,242,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplace.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplace.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplace.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplace.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplace.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplace.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplace.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplace.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplace.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseworkplace.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}