Photo: NZ HeraldNew Zealand's biggest retirement operator wants all staff working at its retirement villages and aged-care facilities to be vaccinated. Ryman's proposed new policy requiring all its roles to be filled by vaccinated staff was released this week and has come as a shock to some workers who feel like they are being pressured into it. There are only about 5 percent of staff at Ryman's retirement village and aged care centres who are not already vaccinated. He disagreed they were asking anyone who was unwilling to get a Covid-19 vaccine to be vaccinated," he said. In the meantime PPE was provided to unvaccinated staff to give them additional protection against contracting the virus.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 15, 2021 03:11 UTC