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The facts on compulsory coronavirus vaccination in the workplace 

27 April 2021

4:00 AM

27 April 2021

4:00 AM

Last week the Nine newspapers reported a Fair Work Commission decision to uphold the right of an employer, in this case major childcare provider Goodstart Early Learning, to fire a staff member, Bou-Jamie Barber, who refused to take the flu vaccine. The headline suggested that this was a decision with major implications for businesses’ power to demand employees get coronavirus jabs.  

The article quoted Ian Neil SC, a labour law barrister who was not involved in the Barber case.

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