Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces a booster vaccination programme will begin on November 29, 2021.
A Southland employment lawyer is encouraging businesses to do their own risk assessments before Government introduces a new process under public health legislation later this year.
The Government announced last month that it would make legislative changes to give businesses who did not fall under current vaccination orders a simplified legal framework to guide Covid-19 vaccination policies.
Copeland Ashcroft Law managing partner Janet Copeland said it was becoming increasingly unlikely that businesses could have no stance on vaccinations at all.
“We won’t have this alert level safetyshortly,” she said, referring to the Covid-19 Protection Framework, which had become known as the traffic light system, that would see the end of lockdowns.
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Copeland gave employers a Covid-19 update at a talk arranged by the Southland Chamber of Commerce on Monday.
Vaccination mandates would present something of a juggling act for employers, she said, as all workplace law obligations would still apply, regardless of the new legislation.
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