Making Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for the mining industry workforce might not be necessary after the immunisation roll-out in the sector reached a milestone this week.
“Our objective is to get industry level immunity by the end of November. We are not focused on mandatory vaccination currently but it could be considered in due course,” said Baxter. “Lots of companies have achieved 80% with at least one jab given to workers so let’s allow that process to flow.” “We told our members that they must go and vaccinate because they work in a crowded environment underground and even when they go underground, so it was important for the NUM to encourage members to vaccinate and we are happy that a lot of members did as requested,” said NUM spokesperson Livhuwani Mammburu.that although NUM’s leadership was working with mining companies to promote immunisation against Covid-19, it would not support making this mandatory.
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