All the company’s workers in stores, distribution centres and support offices will need to be fully vaccinated by either January 31 or March 31 depending on which state they reside in as part of a policy Woolworths hopes to finalise by the end of November.Chief executive Brad Banducci said the move was intended to strengthen the business’s health and safety settings as states and territories around the country begin to open up and reduce their various COVID-19 restrictions.
“As we enter the next phase of the pandemic and learn to live with COVID-19, we need to strengthen our workplace safety settings and vaccinations are clearly a key part of this.”“After careful review of the best medical advice, we’ve made the decision to require all of our team members in Australia to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.”
The supermarket plans to engage further with its team members on the policy before finalising it next month. This will include working out arrangements for any employees with medical or religious exemptions to getting vaccinated.Around one-third of Woolworths employees are already subject to vaccination mandates through the Victorian and NSW state governments’ rules for various workers. Those staff, along with workers in WA, ACT and the NT will be required to be fully vaccinated by January 31.
woolworths About time.
woolworths If only the vaccines worked 👀👀
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woolworths Good.
MarieColemanAO woolworths Why hadn’t they already?
woolworths Bad. Very bad. SayNoToVaccineMandate BoycottWoolies
woolworths BrittMezher 👍
woolworths and being vaccinated DOES NOT reduce the risk of Transmission. Go Figure..
woolworths All supermarkets, which remain open during lock-downs, should have made this decision months ago. Better now than never...
woolworths Excellent.
woolworths Under current laws private and public companies are required to provide a safe working environment for their employees, it falls under duty of care. So it follows that all private employers will be having vaccine mandates
woolworths Good
woolworths Good il shop there
woolworths Very sensible.
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