SODELPA Whip Lynda Tabuya says there are employers who are enforcing the vaccination of its employees and some have terminated employees if they do not get vaccinated however Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says there may be certain work environments where the employers to be able to comply with the COVID-19 protocols, would want their staff vaccinated.
While making her contribution on the Consolidated Review Report on the FICAC Annual Report for 1st January to 31st July 2016 and FICAC Annual Report for 1st August 2016 to 31st July 2017, Tabuya says there is an increasing debate on whether or not to get vaccinated.
She says the civil service and ministries have put out their own directives that civil servants must get vaccinated before they return to work.
Tabuya says you cannot force people to get vaccinated, and we have two competing rights with regards to this.
She says last week a lecturer from FNU was arrested and she is facing sanctions from her employer.
The Attorney General says if you choose not to get vaccinated, there can be various consequences on you if your employer says that this is a workplace requirement. Sayed-Khaiyum says if a person does not want to get vaccinated, no one can force them and there is no competing rights like what Tabuya is saying.
Sayed-Khaiyum says what Tabuya is mentioning in parliament is people expressing their views and the lecturer that she is mentioning is not an expert.
