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1. [2022] NZEmpC 1 GF v OO [pdf, 193 KB]

   ...withdrawn application. [2] The application for costs is declined, for reasons informed by the background context. The background context [3] The applicant’s employer is a public sector organisation. [4] It brought in a mandatory vaccination policy for some of its workers following the passing of an Order made under the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020.1 The applicant did not get vaccinated and their employment was terminated on 30 April 2021. [5] Prio...

2. OIA-109416.pdf [pdf, 804 KB]

   ...Aitken Street DX SX11166 | Wellington T 04 918 8800 | F 04 918 8820 ContactUs@justice.govt.nz | www.justice.govt.nz 29 February 2024 Our ref: OIA 109416 Tēnā koe Request for information regarding the death toll since the COVID-19 vaccine introduction Thank you for your email of 16 January 2024 to Parliamentary Services requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), information on deaths during the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. Specifically, you r...

3. Potae v ACC [2014] NZACA 5 [pdf, 65 KB]

   ...DIRECTIONS [1] This appeal concerns an application for cover for personal injury by accident through medical misadventure alleged as occurring to the appellant (“Hiria”), an infant born on 31 December 1988, through an adverse reaction to vaccinations and initially attributed to her third Hepatitis B vaccine on 29 March 1989 at age 3 months and her third DPT vaccine received a week later on 5 April 1989. The claim was declined by ACC on 1 July 1991, on the grounds that ACC...

4. [2022] NZEmpC 127 VMR v Aviation Security Service Division of Civil Aviation Authority [pdf, 304 KB]

   ...Authority and the Court,7 and applications for removal in the Authority, and now the Court – but they were also plaintiffs in judicial review proceedings brought in the High Court, which challenged the validity of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations Order 2021). Following a two-day 4 GF v OO [2021] NZERA 251. 5 GF v New Zealand Customs Service [2021] NZERA 382. 6 GF v New Zealand Customs Service [2021] NZEmpC 162; GF v Comptroller of the New Zealand Customs Se...

5. FQ & TZ v QM [2022] NZDT 77 (8 February 2022) [pdf, 105 KB]

   ...booked in the new date. Later, in October 2021, following the introduction of vaccination requirements for larger gatherings under the New Zealand government’s Covid Protection Framework, QM contacted FQ and TZ to advise that he was not going to be vaccinated against Covid-19, recognising that this meant he would likely not be able to photograph the couple’s wedding in person. He gave the couple three options including proceeding as planned, QM finding a vaccinated photographer to pro...

6. [2022] NZEmpC 117 QDY v Counties Manukau District Health Board [pdf, 230 KB]

   ...unjustifiably disadvantaged by the Counties Manukau District Health Board (the CMDHB) and that the CMDHB breached its contractual and good faith obligations to her. [2] The applicant was employed by the CMDHB as a nurse. She declined to be vaccinated for COVID-19. After the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021 (the Order) was issued, the CMDHB determined that the role held by the applicant had to be performed by a vaccinated person. The applicant’s...

7. KX and NX v GV Ltd [2022] NZDT 47 (14 January 2022) [pdf, 212 KB]

   ...the period 4 January 2022 to 13 January 2022. 2. On 17 November 2021, GV Ltd emailed its customers stating: To ensure our staff and customers stay as safe as possible we will be requiring all of our customers over the age of 12 to be double vaccinated (except where there is a valid Ministry of Health exemption) at the time of using our caravan and we will require evidence of this at check in. If you do not expect that you will be able to meet these requirements we are offering a re...

8. HT v IF Ltd [2024] NZDT 333 (24 April 2024) [pdf, 217 KB]

   ...unless he can show that it was current at the time he made his booking. That is especially true given at the time he booked in 2022, government requirements and restrictions around Covid and around policies such as masking, vaccination requirements, vaccine passes and permitted limits for gatherings were changing rapidly. I accept IF Ltd’s submission that at all times its communication and messages to its customers was that it would follow the regulations and requirements of the Minist...

9. [2023] NZEmpC 30 Goldie v Chief Executive of the Department of Corrections [pdf, 219 KB]

   ...resolves her challenge. Ms Goldie was dismissed for failing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 [7] Ms Goldie started working for the Department of Corrections in 2017. [8] In early October 2021, the Government announced that mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations would be extended to a number of public service sectors, including prisons. The vaccination order came into effect for the Department of Corrections prisons from 6 November 2021. [9] Ms Goldie was told that her position was...

10. [2023] NZEmpC 158 Turner v Te Whatu Ora [pdf, 293 KB]

    ...[6] In March 2021, an Associate Charge Nurse at the DHB was visiting an aged residential care facility in Carterton and was advised that it had been brought to the attention of one of the nurse managers there that Ms Turner had been posting anti- vaccine information on Facebook. Concern was expressed that, due to Ms Turner being a well-respected Kahukura nurse that other staff looked up to, the posts had caused staff at the aged residential care facility to question whether they shoul...