Vaccine passes and mandates might soon be a thing of the past but an employment lawyer believes some businesses might keep them to make a statement.
From 11:59pm on Monday, it will no longer be compulsory for people to be vaccinated to enter indoor businesses like restaurants and gyms.
The announcement to remove the use of vaccine passes was made in March as part of a plan to loosen COVID restrictions, including removing some vaccine mandates and changes in indoor and outdoor gathering limits.
Employment lawyer Kathryn Dalziel told AM on Monday businesses can continue using vaccine passes as long as it doesn't breach the Human Rights Act.
"For some businesses who aren't supplying essential services, they have got to sit there and think about what are they selling and what they are doing," she said.
"So a good example will be our restaurants and cafes. Some will say all welcome, come on in and dine with us, others might say actually no we are going to carry on with the vaccine passes because we are going to send a marketing message out that we only let people in with vaccine passes."
Dalziel said businesses can still ask employees for proof of vaccination if they have the right policies.
"If they [business] say we are going to continue with mandates, here are our health and safety reasons why, they've gone into consultation, they have done it in good faith and they have made the decision 'yes we are going to carry on with the mandates', then yes they can require employees...
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