About 900 education staff across the state could see their weekly pay docked by between $25 and $90
teachers facing a pay cut for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 are dealing with “the consequences of that choice”.
“School staff were given ample opportunity to follow the lawful direction or provide evidence as to why they should be exempt from the direction since the vaccination requirements were announced in November 2021,” the department said on Wednesday. “Everyone has the right to make a choice about whether or not to get vaxxed, but no one has the right to be free from the consequences of that choice, and these have been set out a long time coming and they’ve had their pay docked for the six months running up to this,” she told Nine’s Today program on Wednesday.“So this isn’t a surprise and something that the Queensland government is going to have to work through with the very small pocket of teachers, given 99% are actually vaccinated.
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