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Premier announces mandatory vaccinations for 75 per cent of state’s workforce

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Premier Mark McGowan has announced mandates for a slew of occupations and workforces that make up around 75 per cent of the state’s workforce.

Employers will be subjected to spot check and those caught with unvaccinated staff will face fines of up to $100,000.

The Premier made the announcement in three groups; the first one are occupations in which risk is sufficient due to high transmission and include:

• Cross-border freight (road and rail) workers – high and extreme risk
locations only
• Remaining public and private hospitals and public healthcare
facilities
• Primary and community health
• Onsite resources sector
• Border and air transport
• Staff working in or entering remote Aboriginal communities
• Residential and non-residential community care services including
in relation to:
• Disability • Mental health • Homelessness
• Drug and alcohol services • Child protection
• Family and domestic violence • Aboriginal peoples
• Corrective services
• Remaining WA Police
• Fire and Emergency Services (excluding volunteers)
• Abattoirs and meat processing

These occupations must have their first dose by 1 December 2021 and be fully vaccinated by 31 December 2021.

The second group are occupations deemed critical to the ongoing delivery of business and function of the community.

They include:

• Supermarkets, grocery, bakery
• Restaurant, pub, bar or café
• Post office
• Hardware store
• Child care or family day care
• School or boarding school* • Financial institution
• Critical infrastructure and services necessary for health, safety and welfare of the
community, any person, animal or premises e.g. utilities and veterinary clinic
• Petrol station, truck stops and roadhouses
• Public and commercial transport
• Remaining port operations
• Remaining commercial transport, freight or logistics
• Hotel, motel or other accommodation facility to provide accommodation services
• Funeral or mortuary services
• Building, maintenance or construction
*(before Term 1 of the 2022 school year)

These occupations must have their first dose by 31 December 2021 and fully vaccinated by 31 January 2022.

The third group will be required to be vaccinated to attend work in the event of a lockdown or similar restrictions.

They include:

• Other click and collect retail
• Bottle shop
• Newsagent
• Pet store
• Wholesaler
• Critical conveyancing and settlement agents
• Roadside assistance
• Critical forestry
• Critical primary industries
• Critical factories, manufacturing, fabrication and production
• Government or local government services where working from home is not possible
• Some administrative services
• Vehicle and mechanical repair service
• Journalistic and media services
• Members and staff of Members of Parliament of Western Australia

 

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