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Police staff taking a personal grievance over treatment for refusing to get Covid vaccine

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Fri, 2 Sep 2022, 4:55PM
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Police staff taking a personal grievance over treatment for refusing to get Covid vaccine

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 2 Sep 2022, 4:55PM

Almost a hundred police staff are taking a personal grievance over their treatment for refusing to get the Covid vaccine.

The vaccine mandate for Police was overturned in the High Court in February - and 91 people are now complaining about what's happened since they got back to work.

Employment lawyer Chris Scarrott told Heather du Plessis-Allan there needs to be good rationale for any vaccine policy - whether enforced by Government or the Police themselves.

He says it's about looking at each of the roles and assessing whether there are particular reasons to protect health and safety.

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