Some people feel uneasy about sharing their COVID vaccination status and cite their right to privacy. The law defines when and how information can be collected and when public health trumps privacy.
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While the vast majority of health workers are prepared to accept COVID vaccinations, we need to make sure the concerns of the minority are heard and don’t compromise safety.
While surveys have shown a large share of unvaccinated workers threatening to quit over a mandate, the reality is few actually do.
The core of the objections, whether they are about vaccinations, lockdowns, social distancing, or mask wearing, seems to concern an apparent erosion of personal liberty.
People tend to stick with their stated beliefs. But here’s how external forces like vaccine mandates can push people to do something they don’t want to do – and provide some face-saving cover.
If staff enforce the rules, they risk harassment and lost tips. But if they overlook unsafe behaviour, they risk further COVID transmission.
Even if the construction union wanted to oppose the government’s vaccine mandate, there’s not a lot it could do.
Unions are encouraging all workers to be vaccinated, but not through employment mandates. Instead, they support bodily autonomy, workers’ rights, fairness and democracy.
Plenty of groups are offering religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, but their legal basis isn’t as rock-solid as that might suggest.
Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in Nigeria cannot be by oral proclamation, but must be based on legislation or regulation on public health and safety.
People who forge their own vaccine cards, or buy forged cards, are already facing legal problems, including criminal charges.
The U.S. FDA has approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. How is approval different from emergency use authorization, and what difference will it make to a vaccine that’s already in global use?
Whether it is reasonable for an Australian employer to mandate vaccination is a case-by-case determination.
At its core, the constitution holds a moral vision of people as autonomous moral agents, capable of rationally forming their own opinions.
Do you actually need compulsory vaccination at your workplace? And if you do, as a last resort, how do you make mandates fair?
Research shows Australians are broadly supportive of vaccine mandates. But to appear legitimate, a mandate needs to serve clearly articulated public health goals and be proportionate.
There are only limited circumstances where workplace vaccine mandates are likely to be found legally justifiable.
More people say they would support a vaccine mandate than say they would definitely take the vaccine themselves.
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