Mandatory Vaccination Not Supported

“Some businesses are just going to have to take the punt as it were and mandate it. Then we’ll see the consequences through the court,” Willox said. “It will just get very messy.” The first business to try to mandate vaccinations in its own workforce, SPC, has been hit with an initial wave of resistance. The business has hit back at the ACTU secretary Sally McManus for stating that SPC’s decision, and mandating vaccines in general, is a slippery slope that could lead to any medical procedure being made necessary for employment. “A number of Australian businesses have required their employees to be vaccinated, for example, the flu shot, and to provide evidence of such as a condition of their employment,” SPC CEO Robert Giles said. “This is nothing new and must be viewed in the context of the Delta strain of Covid-19 which poses a new and unique threat to the safety of our staff.” While SPC was the first business to publicly mandate a ‘no jab, no job’ policy, several others have been vocal in encouraging and facilitating vaccination among their workforces. (Inside Retail 11/08)