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Woolworths will make COVID vaccinations compulsory for its staff to improve workplace safety (Photo: PPR)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thursday, October 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

Woolworths has announced it intends to require its Australian workforce to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in the coming months.<\/p>\n

The decision will apply group-wide and cover Australian team members working in stores, distribution and online fulfilment centres, and support offices.<\/p>\n

“We have a clear obligation to provide our team members with the safest possible work environment as we supply the food and essential needs our communities rely on,” Woolworths Group CEO Brad Banducci said.<\/p>\n

“We have 170,000 team members across our stores, distribution centres and support offices, and more than 1200 retail stores.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Mr Banducci said that as Australia enters the next phase of the pandemic and learns to live with COVID-19, the company needs to strengthen its workplace safety settings, and vaccinations are a key part of this.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“After careful review of the best medical advice, we\u2019ve made the decision to require all of our team members in Australia to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19,” Mr Banducci said.<\/p>\n

Unless public health orders come into effect sooner, the proposed timeline for the full vaccination requirement in the ACT, NSW, NT, Victoria and WA is January 31, 2022.<\/p>\n

It will be March 31, 2022, in the other States, including Queensland.<\/p>\n

Woolworths will engage with its staff and others who regularly visit its workplaces to understand any practical and individual issues in meeting the requirement.<\/p>\n

This will include allowing for legitimate medical and religious exemptions.<\/p>\n

Mr Banducci said about a third of Woolworths Group\u2019s Australian workforce was already subject to State-issued health orders which required either full- or part-vaccination in order to work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The company has been strongly encouraging its team members to get vaccinated since the beginning of the national rollout.<\/p>\n

It offers paid leave for frontline team members to access vaccination bookings, and has also established vaccine clinics at its distribution centres and closed BIG W stores.<\/p>\n

So far, more than 12,000 Woolworths staff have received vaccination doses in these clinics.<\/p>\n

Mr Banducci said that given the company’s important role in providing food and everyday needs to the community, Woolworths will not require its customers to be vaccinated to access food and other essentials in its stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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