An increasing number of employers are requiring job applicants to be fully vaccinated, as the majority of Australians support workplace vaccination mandates for COVID-19, a survey found. Melbourne Institute’s latest Taking the Pulse of the Nation survey (pdf) reported that 70 percent of Australians were either strongly or somewhat in favour of a vaccine mandate for employees, while around 15 percent expressed opposition. “There is quite high support among employees for their own employers to mandate vaccination and, perhaps more importantly, few employees are strongly opposed to such a mandate,” the report author Professor Roger Wilkins said. “Government or employer vaccine mandates are therefore likely to be reasonably popular, effective and involve minimal loss of workers.” Fewer female employees (two-thirds) were supportive of mandates compared to male employees (three-quarters). But the report said this was because more women were neutral towards mandates rather than opposed. People in New South Wales …