Former Labor leader turned NSW MLC for One Nation Mark Latham says a NSW government report shows 13,699 teachers are not allowed to work due to vaccine mandates, and that this is causing the teacher shortage. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.
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Active staff are defined as permanent and temporary staff currently assigned to a position within a government school, and casual staff nominated to work at a school .Tables in the report contain vaccination status data under the following categories: fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated, medically exempt, not vaccinated, not attested and confirmation rejected.
But as the report makes clear, there were several reasons why these 11,442 teachers — who are included on the payroll as inactive staff for up to 18 months after their last assignment — may not have attested."Second, these teachers may have decided to retire or are no longer actively seeking positions."
According to the CESE report, of the 78,535 active teachers on the NSW Department of Education payroll as of March 31, 74,539 were fully vaccinated and 335 were medically exempt, while 724 were either partially vaccinated, not at all vaccinated or had had their proof of vaccination rejected. In a statement, a spokesman for the NSW Department of Education told Fact Check Mr Latham's claim was "wrong and misleading" and that the "overwhelming majority of public-school staff are vaccinated".
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