As NZ’s only oil refinery shuts down, some of the figures involved in the Wellington protest are seizing on the closure as the focus for a 'big occupation'.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged it was a big step.
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A new government Health Order covers private sector staff in jobs seen as too high risk to be left unprotected.
It also now includes aviation security staff working in managed isolation hotels. It is an extraordinary step to mandate and to tell someone who may for instance be employed by a private sector employer, that they will not be able to work in their job unless they re vaccinated. That is a very big step, Ardern said.
She argued that, as the rate of vaccine take-up for those border facing jobs is not high enough, the government was left with little choice but to make it compulsory.
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