COVID-19 vaccination update

The COVID-19 vac­cine is now rolling out at ports and many of our mem­bers as essen­tial work­ers will have the oppor­tun­ity to be vac­cin­ated.

MUNZ encour­ages all mem­bers to take advant­age of this vac­cine to pro­tect your­self, your fam­ily, your work­mates and the wider com­munity.

The Gov­ern­ment has gone through a very strin­gent pro­cess, and the advice of qual­i­fied pub­lic health offi­cials is to be vac­cin­ated if pos­sible. MUNZ has atten­ded meet­ings with Gov­ern­ment offi­cials about this issue.

In some cases, indi­vidu­als may not wish to be vac­cin­ated – due to oth­er health con­di­tions, or per­son­al objec­tion or con­cerns about the vac­cine.

Vac­cin­a­tion is not com­puls­ory and while some employ­ers are say­ing it is, this is not the case. While MUNZ would prefer mem­bers to vac­cin­ate vol­un­tar­ily, there should be no vic­tim­iz­a­tion of those who do not. Any breaches should be repor­ted to your branch offi­cials.

It may be that some employ­ers place non-vac­cin­ated staff on dif­fer­ent duties, if this does not dis­ad­vant­age the mem­ber in ques­tion it is prob­ably reas­on­able, but if in doubt con­tact your branch offi­cial.

Please down­load this Vac­cin­a­tion inform­a­tion doc­u­ment from the Gov­ern­ment for more details.

More info at:

https://covid19.govt.nz/health-and-wellbeing/covid-19-vaccines/