Quote: REVENUE ". IMO, R.L clubs would be well within their rights to penalise any player who is unable to fulfil his contract, and contracts mean being able to perform your job if fit whenever and wherever it is played.'"
Governments have been loathe to throw down the gauntlet to the plethora of legal challenges mandates will bring. It may be an unpopular tactic, but I believe vaccine passports are the best way to encourage participation. If you don't have a pass you can't visit bars, cafes, restaurants, pools, gymnasiums, theatres, cinemas, sporting events, and a load of other day to day leisure activities. Also, if you are.on any form of benefit from the state, then you may face cuts.
It's not about government overreach here, it is about getting out of this pandemic as quickly as we can.
If you have no passport then it is a government mandate and not a business owner. An emergency law could be negotiated through both houses quite quickly so long as it has a time-line of say 18 months. Yes, it will be challenged legally, but taking on the government is not as easy as taking on a single business owner.
NZ stands at 95% double jabbed......we have 250,000 holding us back, but those people are now essentially social outcasts......omicron is here now and we are bracing for cases, deaths and hospitalisations on a bigger scale than we've ever seen, but all but 250,000 of us are better protected from serious illness and death. Currently we have 1 person in hospital and 407 cases in the community self isolating.....this will explode in the next few weeks but measures taken in the last 2 years mean we have only had 52 deaths and of those, 4 were fully vaxed, 3 were partially vaxed and 45 were not vaccinated.
So basically 15% vaxed, 85% unvaxxed........as of yesterday 8,910,000 vaccinations have been administered here....we have had 1....that's ONE death as a result of vaccination.......
As I say, unpopular, but vaccine passports with a government mandate works!