Nearly 1,000 school staff in Queensland, including teachers, aides, administration, and cleaners, will have a portion of their salaries cut for 18 weeks as a disciplinary measure for not being vaccinated against COVID-19.
Mandates were handed to teachers, prison staff, and airport staff in Nov. 2021.
Those who failed to comply or provide evidence as to why they should be exempt from having had the first jab by Dec. 17 and the second by Jan. 23, 2022, were suspended without pay.
The requirement ended in June 2022, and staff have been allowed to return to work.
Queensland’s Education Department is cutting the pay of school staff who did not get the COVID-19 vaccine. (Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)
The new pay docking would be the second time the teachers are penalised financially after already being stood down without pay….