Epidemiologists and industry groups say requirement no longer needed but chamber of commerce says decision is for health officials
A health worker with a patient before administering a Covid vaccine booster in Melbourne in March. The Victorian government is under growing pressure to drop its double-dose mandate for workers.A health worker with a patient before administering a Covid vaccine booster in Melbourne in March. The Victorian government is under growing pressure to drop its double-dose mandate for workers.
“The industry is already experiencing a staffing shortage and now that we know what we know about Covid-19 and how to deal with it, you would think that the government would take expert advice and scale back these restrictions.” “The challenge is now to address ongoing issues around worker and skills shortages and the rising costs on business, which have been exacerbated by global economic factors,” he said.
“It did make a difference in terms of our population-level response and our control, but I don’t think there was ever going to be an argument – even before Omicron – for keeping the two-dose mandates in place,” Bennett told the inquiry. Tim Piper, the Victorian head of employer association Australian Industry Group, said the government should reconsider the third-jab mandate for the food processing sector, saying it was “not something that could be run any longer”.
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