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From: Erika Whittome <[FOI #33575 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2026 7:54 am
To: Official Information <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Terminated staff due to
vaccination status at Auckland Council Take 2

 

Dear Auckland Council,
I had asked for information on Auckland Council staff being fired for not
being vaccinated here
[2]https://fyi.org.nz/request/29558-termina...

I will copy and paste:
"Vaccination requirements at Auckland Council
I would like to know the number of Auckland Council staff who were
1. terminated from their employment or place on any form of " extended
leave" due to not being vaccinated for Covid-19 in 2021 and 2022.

2. granted Special Covid-19 Leave between 22nd November 2021 and 2nd July
2022. (Ie they were sick from Covid-19 and off work on paid sick leave
under "special covid19 leave")
- The total headcount of staff at this time of granting special covid-19
leave

The response I got was "The fact that we purged all vaccine related
information from our systems means that this is no longer included in
employee records, as we no longer
required this information for the purpose for which it had been
collected."

The IRD paid out Covid leave, so this data is not purged.
Under the Public Records Act, would you kindly share the sign off for the
destruction of such data at Auckland Council?
Would you Please share the appraisal process that was used to destroy
these public records as outlined in s18 for the Public Records Act 2005?

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

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Please find attached a response to your requests for information.

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Ngā mihi | Kind regards,

The Privacy & LGOIMA team

Auckland Council

[2]Remember Tamariki 16 years and under swim free at Auckland Council
Pools.

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