by admin | Sep 17, 2021 | Covid-19
In January of this year, we examined whether employers could force employees to be COVID-19 vaccinated when the vaccine became available. At that time, whilst still isolated from the rest of the world, there were relatively few cases of COVID and those cases were...
by admin | Jul 25, 2021 | Covid-19
From Sunday 18 July 2021, most workplaces in Greater Sydney including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong, and Shellharbour were declared closed to the public. This lockdown has now expanded to parts of regional NSW, Melbourne, Adelaide. This means that many...
by admin | Jul 14, 2021 | Covid-19
At 11am on 7 July 2021, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced that the lockdown for Greater Sydney and surrounding factions will extend at least until Friday, 16 July 2021. This represents a three-week lockdown hereby affected residents must stay at home causing...
by Shana Joffe | Feb 2, 2021 | Covid-19
As the Federal Government has recently announced, the COVID-19 vaccination rollout will commence in mid to late February, a full month ahead of the previously foreshadowed commencement schedule at the end of March 2021. As business and industry of all sizes has...
by Shana Joffe | Dec 21, 2020 | Conduct and Performance, Covid-19
As we have covered in previous client alerts, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a raft of unique challenges for employers striving to maintain safety, efficiency and productivity, and employees who, perhaps for the first time in their working lives, are now...
