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Mandatory COVID-19 vaccine direction for WA hotel quarantine workers comes into force
All hotel quarantine workers in Western Australia must now be vaccinated under the state government’s public health direction which comes into force today.
The order made by premier Mark McGowan last month will see all cleaners, security staff, hotel workers, police and ADF personnel who have contact with guests and guests’ rooms required to have the jab. Those who have had at least one jab, rather than both, will still be allowed to work, according to a statement from the WA health department provided to the ABC.
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Fair Work Act will be amended to allow employers to summarily dismiss perpetrators of sexual harassment in the workplace, and the Fair Work Commission (FWC) will be able to issue stop orders to directly address sexual harassment, as part of the federal government’s response to the landmark [email protected] report.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney-General Michaelia Cash said on Thursday the government would accept all of the report’s 55 recommendations either “wholly, in part, or in principle” and introduce changes before the next budget to simplify and streamline sexual harassment legislation.
While further details are expected to be made available soon about how the government plans to address each of these recommendations, it has committed to a number of key amendments to the