- Council of Small Business Organisations Australia want right to fire anti-vaxxers
- Staff who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine could be sacked as a ‘business decision’
- Council have proposed law changes to protect employers from any legal action
- Greg Hunt said the jab will be ‘as mandatory as possible’ but not illegal to refuse
- PM Scott Morrison on Wednesday said he had no power to enforce a vaccine
- Mr Hunt said government was not considering making inoculation compulsory
- But said authorities would have option of enforcing policies like ‘no jab, no pay’
Jackson Barron and Charlie Coe – Daily Mail Australia Aug 20, 2020
Small businesses are pushing for the right to sack staff members who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine when one becomes available in Australia.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week announced the government had signed a memorandum of understanding with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Australia to secure the promising Oxford University vaccine candidate.
The government hopes the coronavirus vaccine will reach Australia by early next year and wants 95 per cent of people to get the jab.
Mr Morrison said he would like to make the vaccine ‘as mandatory as possible’ but does not have the power to make it compulsory.
The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia has since proposed law changes that would give employers the power to sack workers who refuse the jab.
‘If one of my staff members says, “no, I’m against it”, then I’m going to have to say, I’m sorry then, you are a threat to my business’,’ Council CEO Peter Strong told 7News.
‘If you don’t sack them, you don’t have a business, especially if you’re in a high contact area where you’ve got a lot of customers. It’s not discrimination, that’s a business decision.’
Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus said unions have yet to finalise their response, but are encouraging staff to do all they can to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
‘Obviously that will include getting vaccinated when a vaccine becomes available,’ she said.
Meanwhile, Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt won’t rule out stripping welfare payments from people who refuse coronavirus vaccines – and turning them away at the border.
‘Our first goal is to encourage as many Australians as possible. I’m confident that a very, very large numbers of Australians will take it up,’ Mr Hunt told the Seven Network on Thursday.
‘But we reserve the right, subject to medical advice, to take steps that might assist.’
When asked whether the government would consider refusing entry to non-vaccinated Australians returning from overseas, Mr Hunt said he ‘wouldn’t rule it out’.
Well, seeing it will be the most intelligent ones who will refuse the vaccine, it’s a good opportunity for any employer looking for the best employees. Any company worth it’s salt will be snapping these people up, leaving their competitors with the cast of Idiocracy. if there was ever a case for the law of unintended consequences, this must be it.
Indeed. Vaccination refusal is an indication of intelligence.
You are absolutely right on –this IS a test. Curiously, it does not take the the wisdom of Solomon to pass this particular test.
This is , what’s happening now ..
https://www.xyz.net.au/third-world-refugees-flee-victorian-third-world-shithole-trying-to-get-back-to-third-world-shithole/
As the treachery and tyranny is so blatantly over-the-top there, Australia should be literally on fire as we speak, with the traitors and psychopaths of the ruling class ripped to pieces in the streets and the useful idiots among the citizenry running for their lives. Is there some sort of mass paralysis and mental retardation afflicting Australians?
Or are you all just impotent cuckolds now?
Yes Umbra it is called prosperity and thankless for that, obviously. Australia’s attempt at lobbying for the throne of Neoliberalism that’s all while all one has to do in this country is ask a potential boss, how far up the ass of sustainable development are you?. Any indication that the potential boss is part of TCFD hand me downs whether they are aware of it or not, gets trashed and told why. Corruption as its limits. This poo comes down the feudalist line just send it back up seems the reasonable thing to do. If the change agents get caught in the middle well, ain’t that their learning experience.
No Freedom Mask? No Freedom Vaccine?
Then no Job.
No Freedom for Enemies of Freedom!
🙂