Prime Minister Scott Morrison says business employers need to be aware Australia does not have a “mandatory vaccination policy”.
“Employers need to consider these matters and make their own decisions remembering we do not have a mandatory vaccination policy in this country, we do not have that, we are not proposing to have that, that is not changing,” Mr Morrison said following the latest meeting of National Cabinet.
“But an employer may wish to make a reasonable directive to staff and if they do so, they will need to do so consistent with the law, and that particularly will deal with a situation where an employee may be in direct contact potentially or becoming infected and acquiring the virus.
“But ultimately they're choices for the businesses themselves.”
