Kia ora Erika Whittome,
 
On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 1/05/2025 requesting, under the Official
Information Act 1982, the following:
Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,

The US government announced in Jan 2025 that it would reinstate with back
pay the 8000 discharged military workers who objected to Covid 19 vaccine
mandates. Only 43 rejoined according to the 4 December 2024 Whitehouse
report here
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...
on page 384.

For 2021 onwards, would you please share
1 the number of reinstatements for any unvaccinated workers by year as a
result of MBIE mediations and Employment Relations Authority
determinations.

2. The number of appeals to the employment court for vaccine mandates by
year since 2021.

3 the number of unvaccinated workers burdened with legal costs as a result
of employment relations authority determinations (from the daily tariff of
$4500 for the first day)

4 To the chair of the Employment Relations Authority: please share any
reviews, memos, comments and correspondence on this December 2021 US
Whitehouse report on Covid regarding vaccine mandated workers particularly
page 320 onwards about findings (link above) . The following are notable
excerpts of the US Covid report:

Page 378

Our analysis strongly suggests that mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policies
have had damaging effects on public trust, vaccine confidence, political
polarization, human rights, inequities and social wellbeing. We question
the effectiveness and consequences of coercive vaccination policy in
pandemic response and urge the public health community and policymakers to
return to non-discriminatory, trust-based public health approaches.

Page 380:
As Dr. Bardosh highlighted in the BMJ paper, vaccine mandates appear to
have also deepened political divisions. Rhetoric from some politicians and
public health officials painted the vaccine mandates as a necessary policy
to combat the selfish, ignorant, or malevolent “unvaccinated” who were
perpetuating the pandemic. Americans wanted to be honestly educated about
both the virus and the vaccines, not indoctrinated.
 
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Nâku noa, nâ
Ministerial Services
Strategy and Assurance
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
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