COVID concerns are on the rise – are you aware of the new legislations?
Alongside the ever-evolving legislation around vaccination policies and Work Health & Safety (WHS) measures and compliance, Australian businesses also need to take heed of varying public health orders that’re in place across different states and territories. HRD spoke with Australian Business Lawyers and Advisors (ABLA) director Kyle Scott on the pressing legal issues Australian employers are facing now – and will be looking at in the coming months.
“Issues related to COVID-19 continue to consume a lot of the focus at the moment,” Scott told HRD. “Getting the balance right between managing safety risks, getting operations back to normal, and dealing with a constantly changing regulatory environment is a real challenge. We’re starting to see the flow-on effects from many businesses implementing site entry requirements prohibiting unvaccinated people from entering – as well as complexities around the collection of vaccination records and privacy laws.”
The ‘flow on’ effects occur when a lot of businesses haven’t imposed their own vaccine mandate on the workforce. Essentially, if their employees are required to enter another business site (for example, service technicians) employees may need to be vaccinated in order to perform their work. Government Public Health Orders have been put in place at airports, in quarantine, and across a number of industries including aged...
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