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View from Canberra 2021 July

  • July 31, 2021
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Andrea Luquesi Scott

The BIC has long advocated for public transport to be acknowledged as an essential service – a service that should be a basic fundamental right for all Australians. Interestingly, it seems to be lost on governments that PT in fact provides a service to other industries considered as essential services. As PT workers form so much of the front-line staff, there are a number of issues that will need to be considered as the vaccination program ramps-up:
  • providing paid leave to employees who get their two jabs
  • time off for dealing with side effects from the vaccinations
  • incentives, such as discounted buying, to encourage vaccinations
  • preference to vaccinated drivers in high-risk work, in line with recent decisions of the Fair Work Commission which have endorsed termination of aged and day care workers who have refused the vaccinations.
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  • Andrea Luquesi Scott
    Andrea Luquesi Scott
  • Andrea Luquesi Scott
  • With a career spanning education, publishing, health, transport, IT, tourism, sustainability and peak bodies within Australia, Europe, Canada and the United States, Andrea believes that authentic, compelling and creative communications can genuinely affect change.

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