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As Australia prepares to roll out a national vaccination program - aiming for a 95 percent uptake rate - big questions remain for employers and employees.
Employers have a clear incentive to want employees vaccinated, to protect clients and co-workers as well as to avoid legal liabilities of potential workplace COVID transmissions.
But can an employer insist on vaccination as a condition of employment?
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Lieutenant Jo Brook was in love the second she left the deck on her first helicopter flight and soon she will be the first woman in the Royal New Zealand Navy to qualify as a helicopter pilot.
Brook didn’t set out to be a trail-blazer. She was thinking about her future in the Navy after nearly six years as a Warfare Officer, and was intrigued to learn helicopter pilot was a potential career option for her specialisation.
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Read more: Love at first flight for Navy's first female helicopter pilot
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The cruise line turned away after crew were denied visas has cancelled its upcoming season of expedition voyages around New Zealand.
Ponant said it had been forced to scrap the seven fully booked cruises after Immigration New Zealand refused to issue visas for 61 of 90 Le Lapérouse crew members because they were not considered critical workers.
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Read more: Cruise line denied entry to New Zealand cancels upcoming season
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Pfizer says it is on track to deliver the first doses of its Covid-19 vaccine to New Zelaand before the end of March, following its regulatory approval on Wednesday.
Medsafe granted the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine provisional approval for use in New Zealand on Wednesday afternoon, allowing the two-dose inoculation to be administered to anyone 16 or over.
Those first in line will be health workers, border workers, their families, and those most at risk of death from Covid-19.
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The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been approved for use in New Zealand and border workers and their families, as well as frontline staff, will get it first.
It's expected to arrive before the end of March and be in arms within two-to-three weeks after that. The elderly and vulnerable will be next, with everyone else having to wait until the second half of the year.
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Healthcare and border workers who don't get the COVID-19 vaccine could lose their job - and such dismissals would be legally justified in some cases, one employment lawyer says.
It comes after Medsafe gave provisional approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Wednesday, but the Government has not disclosed when the shipment of 750,000 doses will arrive.
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Read more: High-risk workers who don't get vaccine could lose job - employment lawyer
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The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been given provisional approval in New Zealand but the Government has not disclosed when the shipment of 750,000 doses will arrive.
But the Government has revealed who will get the first jabs. Managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) cleaners, nurses, security staff and those who undertake health checks are first in line, as are custom and border officials, and airline staff.
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A cruise ship turned away from New Zealand is now stuck off the coast of New Caledonia, low on fuel with a significant storm approaching and no permission to dock.
Le Laperouse has an economic exemption to come to New Zealand for the cruise season but was last week refused entry after Immigration denied 61 of its 90 crew visas because they are not considered essential workers.
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