No one bother pointing out to these idiots that "mandatory" in Black's legal dictionary still requires your voluntary consent.
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Workers in Victoria, the NT and Western Australia will need to be vaccinated in line with the public health orders in place for those states.
However, employees in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania are exempt from the mandate, though Coles said it would continue to "encourage" vaccine uptake.
In contrast, Woolworths employees will need to be vaccinated nationwide.
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CEO Brad Banducci said the decision was made after reviewing the "best medical advice".
"We have 170,000 team members across our stores, distribution centres and support offices, and more than 1200 retail stores," he said.
"With each store welcoming an average 20,000 customers a week, a single team member can come into contact with quite literally thousands of people in the course of a normal working week."
Unless public health orders come into effect sooner, Woolworth's proposed deadline for the full vaccination requirement in the ACT, NSW, NT, Victoria and Western Australia is January 31, 2022, and March 31, 2022, in the other states.
Both companies said employees with legitimate reasons to not get the vaccine would not have to.
And customers will not need to be vaccinated while shopping for essential supplies, either.
Aldi has also announced it will move towards mandating vaccines for its workforce, though no concrete plans are yet in place.
It's a psy-op