The Australian’s Ticky Fullerton says rules surrounding coronavirus vaccinations will be an “absolute mess” in businesses.
“Safe Work Australia has sort of set out a few scenarios and guidelines, but they just reveal what a extraordinary liability that business actually are having to bear,” Ms Fullerton told Sky News host Alan Jones.
“For example, if you are employing a workforce and somebody gets COVID-19 at work, you can be forced to pay workers compensation.
“Now if somebody gets the flu at work you don’t have to pay compensation, but partly because of the great traceability and the ability to actually pinpoint where this COVID outbreak happened, this is now part of keeping a workplace healthy.
“Now if you take the other view and say ‘well now that’s the case and we have got that liability, then we actually must get all employees vaccinated’, well then you’re up for discrimination.”