Covid arrived in Christchurch via someone who tested negative both ways before travelling - can't rely on testing alone.
Individual government departments can mandate earlier than an order, and hairdressers are only required to get vaccinated if they also require vaccine certificates of customers - they don't have to do either, in which case stronger restrictions apply to ...
I'm expecting a wider mandate for the public service at some point. Too late to easily include it in the current mandates (15 November/1 January), but I could see 15 December/1 February.
Hard to vaccinate against in the sense that flu is caused by collection of viruses which mutate a lot and sometimes the vaccines miss a circulating strain, and effectiveness against hospitalisation is not nearly as high as for Delta (Min Health website has...
Currently, but if you're a nurse or teacher (for example), NZ work might be hard to find after the order comes through, which could be seen as compulsion. Agree that it's more tenuous than hired goons actually forcing the vaccination.
Very sorry for being called out no doubt...
Level 1 but no interisland travel isn't a great life for a bunch of people either.
A difference is that the flu is hard to vaccinate against while Delta isn't. Delta is approximately as bad as Polio on the numbers (similar R0, slightly faster serial interval, similar-higher death rate), and is quite a bit worse than the flu.
In terms of the NZBORA and Covid restrictions, it would be the rights to refuse medical treatment, freedom of movement, association and peaceful assembly. I think the restrictions come under justified limitations (also in the NZBORA) myself and that has ...
Assuming the nurses are going to have 2 days off per week, along with public holidays (either on the days or as alternative holidays later), annual leave and sick leave (and bereavement, parental and other leave), not to mention professional development/...
Maybe, but the main risk factor for Covid by a wide margin is age. You live longer, you suffer the consequences?
Us and everyone else it seems sometimes. Not being able to print money has its own issues as Greece can attest.
In theory they will have a QR code for businesses to scan to check authenticity.
Following the law, one assumes. Privacy Act makes it difficult to announce ongoing investigations until there is an outcome.
We're hardly unique in issuing large amounts of debt as a reaction to Covid.
From the Ministry of Health's perspective, they don't want to encourage "vaccine sommeliers" (to quote someone somewhere) because the infrastructure for each vaccine is different, so it creates logistical issues (especially given Pfizer's storage ...
Cancelled National Parties tax bracket moves and increased Working for Families and Accommodation Supplements substantially Added a new tax bracket for the very high income earners Bright line test extended Property losses ringfenced Property interest ...
Michael Holding aka Whispering Death if you want a fast bowler with a very long run up in his prime.
Agree, there are certainly swing voters who vote for either Labour or National based on vibe (for want of a better term) or occasionally a few specific issues, and also a fair few more who swing between Labour and Greens or National and Act on the ...
I don't think the problem is level 4 vs level 3, it's that a small minority of people aren't complying either way.
That's also what the Covid Vaccination Order actually says - it requires vaccination (or a medical exemption) to undertake certain types of work, not just a blanket requirement to get vaccinated. Obviously that's a fine distinction, and Hobson's Choice to ...
I don't think there's a lot of understanding about how rapidly an application system like that would bog down.
Covid vaccination orders aren't mandatory treatment currently, they make it unlawful for types of work to be undertaken by unvaccinated people (unless medically exempt). That's obviously a fine distinction.
Customs and Aviation Security are two recent cases, Air New Zealand and Auckland Airport are going down the route of mandatory vaccination for most roles currently so I could see that eventually resulting in termination.
Agree, lots of natural barriers like rivers and mountain ranges. Obviously people can theoretically traverse the Southern Alps without using the roads or cross the Waitaki River etc. on boats, but it's quite the effort.
If the requirement is a legal one e.g. a Covid vaccination order, the employer is covered if they offered to reassign the worker to work which does not require vaccination and the worker refused reassignment, or if the employer has no work available which ...
None, the Covid-19 Health Response Act 2020 already allows for making an order which mandates that people must not carry out certain types of work unless vaccinated - this was the Act under which the current vaccination order was made. I don't think the ...
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/three-waters-mayors-pushing-back-a-tide-of-effluent The other side of 3 Waters - communities either unwilling or unable to afford to replace or upgrade current water systems. There are 7 mayors in that article ("Paula Southgate ...
Both? That said, one of the major reasons to join a gang is loss of hope in a prospect's future, and poverty plays a big part in that loss of hope.
This is an excellent summary. Two minor additions which have caused some complaining - technically the infrastructure counts as assets, so removing them from the books may affect a council's borrowing ability, and the few places that arguably don't need to...
That policy is shameful and needs to be removed faster than "medium term work programme".
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