CORONAVIRUS — MANDATORY VACCINATION POLICY
1050. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the Leader of the House
representing the Premier:
I refer to the government's
announcement on 5 November of a plan to have a plan for the opening of the
state from COVID-19 restrictions called WA's safe transition plan,
and to answers to questions without notice 896 and 934 about mandatory
vaccinations.
(1) How many tier 3 workers have
refused to be vaccinated by today's cut-off?
(2) What proportion or percentage of
tier 3 workers are unvaccinated today?
(3) How many tier 3 workers were
made unemployed today?
(4) Who is
measuring the number of unvaccinated workers; and what monitoring regime has
the government put in place to ensure that employers have no unvaccinated
staff?
(5) Given that the Chief Health Officer issued the
public health order mandating vaccination, and the police are on record
as saying that compliance is not a police responsibility, is the Chief Health
Officer ultimately responsible for compliance with his order?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1)–(3) I
reject the premise of the question. WA's safe transition plan
does not relate to mandatory vaccination requirements as referred to in
questions without notice 896 and 934. I assume that the honourable member is
referring to Western Australia's mandatory vaccination policy. The
mandatory vaccination policy does not make any reference to tier 3 workers.
(4) Each employer
or person in charge of a workplace must ensure that employees are vaccinated or
exempt from vaccination. Employees are
required to comply with the direction to provide evidence to an employer
of their vaccination status and not to enter
or work at a location if unvaccinated. Employers will be required to
keep records of staff vaccination status and ensure unvaccinated staff are not
permitted to work.
(5) I reject the premise of the
question.