Unvaccinated NSW aged care staff unable to work from today

Aged care staff from across the state of NSW who have not however had their first jab of coronavirus vaccine are no yearner permitted to work from today.

Unlike past states that have softened their first-thrust-minimum position to offer providers Sir Thomas More tolerance, NSW has remained steadfast happening the Sept 17 deadline.

Figures released by the federal government's vaccination taskforce show that 95.3% of Commonwealth of Australi's 271,000  ripe care workers have had their freshman jab.

In NSW, 96.2% of aged care staff have had their first jab thus far, leaving the unexpended 3.8% of aged tending staff no longer permitted to work.

Health Services Union (HSU) Secretary Gerard Rutherford Birchard Hayes has been critical of the NSW government's hardline glide path and called for a deadline denotation that would allow aged care workers more time to get vaccinated.

"We can't afford to lose unitary person out of aged deal because we don't feature enough populate temporary in cured care, so it's non as if the authorities's got a back-sprouted workforce if multitude do leave," HSU Secretary Hayes told reporters .

Unlike worn care staff whose vaccination deadline was today, hospital and health staff across the state of NSW have an extra 13 years ahead best dose coronavirus vaccinations become mandatory.

With that deadline looming, and more than 13,000 NSW Health faculty static yet to be vaccinated, NSW Wellness Minister Brad Hazzard threw down the gantlet to staff WHO remain on the fence approximately the vaccination issue.

"There is no alternative but to exist vaccinated … if you work in the wellness system you have an obligation … in what is a pandemic, what is a war," Hazzard said.

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