View
comments
A major food producer will ban its employees from the workplace unless they get booked in to be vaccinated against Covid-19 within six weeks.
Canned fruit and vegetable processor SPC announced on Thursday it had given all of its 450 on-site employees until September 15 to schedule their first dose.
All staff and contractors at the company's factory in Shepparton in regional Victoria must be fully vaccinated by the end of November.
Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie praised SPC for 'having the guts' to make vaccinations mandatory for its staff.
Canned fruit and vegetable processor SPC announced on Thursday it had given all of its 450 on-site employees until September 15 to schedule their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Pictured is the SPC factory in Shepparton in central Victoria
'The last thing we need is for food suppliers, which are so crucial, to be shutting down,' she told the Today show on Thursday morning.
'I applaud them, [for] having the guts to come out and do
