With the rising cases of Covid 19 worldwide, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison released a statement that they won’t be making new laws to mandate the employers to make it compulsory for their staff to be vaccinated against Covid 19.
Employers Could Mandate Covid Vaccines But Not On Governmental Laws
Morrison released a statement on Friday and said that the employers may enforce a “reasonable directive” that their staff must be vaccinated against the pandemic virus. However, it must be “consistent with the law”.
This comes after a meeting with the National Cabinet. During the meeting, the government’s top law adviser, the solicitor general informed the Prime Minister and State and Territory leaders regarding the legal concerns for mandating vaccinations for the employees.
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Meanwhile, Morrison said that there were some instances where the employers can make it compulsory to be vaccinated. But the government would not introduce laws for any other wider mandates.
Up until Friday, about half of the Australian population was in lockdown in three states to curb the spread of the Delta variant. At the same time, the state of Victoria and some regional areas recently also joined the ongoing lockdown.
Australia Records 361 Cases Of The Delta Variant
The above statement comes after the Australia recorded a daily number of new Covid 19 cases on Saturday. The country’s most populous states of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria recorded a total of 361 cases of the Delta variant cases.
Following this, 60 percent of Australia’s population was under lockdown along with five covid 19 related deaths, which is the highest this year.
Meanwhile, the NSW suffered it’s worst pandemic phase when it reported 319 Covid 19 cases. Sydney and neighbouring regional centres within 200kms of coastline are under a stay-at-home order. And has been in that state from the past six weeks already.
