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: With the announcement of the roll out of the Pfizer/BioNTec COVID-19 vaccine commencing in the UK last week (week of December 7, 2020) and vaccination roll out to commence in the US in due course, international employers are considering their options to mandate or direct employees to get vaccinated as part of their overall organizational business continuity strategies and to manage the health and safety of employees, workers, and their underlying customers/client base for those with outward facing businesses.
The global approach to employers directing employees to get vaccinated varies widely outside of the US, both due to divergent cultural and legal issues and the fact that many governments will control the purchase, flow, and roll out of COVID-19 vaccines rather than private companies/citizens.
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With the announcement of the roll out of the Pfizer/BioNTec COVID-19 vaccine commencing in the UK last week (week of December 7, 2020) and vaccination roll out to commence in the US in due course, international employers are considering their options to mandate or direct employees to get vaccinated as part of their overall organizational business continuity strategies and to manage the health and safety of employees, workers, and their underlying customers/client base for those with outward facing businesses.
The global approach to employers directing employees to get vaccinated varies widely outside of the US, both due to divergent cultural and legal issues and the fact that many governments will control the purchase, flow, and roll out of COVID-19 vaccines rather than private companies/citizens.
A future COVID-19 vaccine could become compulsory for some Australian workers, forcing them to get the jab or lose their job. Following Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce s comments that international passengers would require the vaccine to travel, Australians have been asking who else can enforce this rule. Qantas declined to comment on any employee policies in the works, with a spokesman saying we re still pretty much in the early days of this . Other major employers contacted by News Corp Australia, including Virgin Australia Group, Woolworths, Bunnings Warehouse, PwC, Commonwealth Bank and the Australian Government s Department of Social Services, had also not yet made a decision regarding staff vaccinations.