The Victorian government’s decision to retain its vaccine mandate has sidelined many of the state’s public school teachers.
The government requires all public school teachers to have triple-vaccinated in order to keep their jobs, and a Department of Education spokesman has indicated that 99.2% have had a booster shot.
However, it is believed that in total about 420 full-time-equivalent teachers have been stood down because they have not complied with the vaccine mandate. This is said to include about 240 teachers who have not received a booster shot, and 180 who were stood down in 2021 as they did not get a first or second dose.
