Woolworths and Coles demand ALL 250,000 of their Australian workers get a Covid jab or face being sacked in sweeping vaccine mandates
Woolworths and Coles staff will need to have received the Covid-19 jab
Workers in various states will be required to have the vaccine by certain dates
Customers will not need to be fully vaccinated to shop at the supermarkets
Woolworths and Coles staff will be required to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in the coming months.
The mandate enforced by the nation's biggest retailers will apply to all staff including those working in stores, distribution centres and offices.
Woolworths employs 170,000 staff while Coles has more than 120,000 workers.
Woolworths staff in NSW, the ACT, Victoria, the Northern Territory, and WA will need to have received the jab by January 31.
Workers in all other states will be required to be vaxxed before March 31, unless public health orders are brought in sooner which will bring this date forward.
Coles has meanwhile announced their vaccine mandate will apply to staff working in Victoria, NSW, the ACT, WA and the Northern Territory.
Those in NSW and the ACT will need to have had the jab by December 17.
Coles staff in Victoria, the NT and Western Australia have already been required to get the vaccine under health mandates.
The supermarket giant says it will continue to work with health authorities to encourage vaccination in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania.
Vaccines are currently not required as a condition of work in those states.
Some Coles and Woolworths employees have already been required to receive the vaccine based on health orders in their states.
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