Originally Posted by
Xeptu
There's no issue with a company making requirements for a job description. However without legislation that comes with obligation too, the company accepts liability for anything that may go wrong there whether the employee chose to be vaccinated or not. Without legislation it's unlikely any insurance company will cover that risk, certainly not for that many employees.
A more sensible approach is to encourage employees to choose the vaccination even if that means incentives. To terminate an existing employee for not being vaccinated particularly if there are medical grounds falls squarely in discrimination.
Qantas has said they will accept legitimate medical grounds of which there are very few but it remains likely that these people would not be able to remain in customer facing roles. It is also possible that legitimate medical grounds would probably make you ineligible to be flight crew anyway.