Ref: 2324-0413

 

Kia ora Erika Whittome,

On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 24 August 2023 requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:

“Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, I refer to your
website from 29th of Dec 2021  which used to say the following:

 

Vaccination assessment tool

If your business or workplace isn’t covered by a government mandate for
COVID-19 vaccination, you can choose to do a risk assessment to see if you
can require work to be carried out by vaccinated workers, on health and
safety grounds.

 

(from
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...
)

 

Would you please share the minutes, emails and any correspondence and
policy documents for the decision to publish the above saying that a
business or workplace may require work to be "carried out by vaccinated
workers, on health and safety grounds."

Please include any legal discussions and legal advice,  and also refer to
the specific sections of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 as the
basis for this statement.”

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible, and no
later than 21 September 2023, being 20 working days after the day your
request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then,
we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.  If you have any
enquiries regarding your request feel free to contact us via email to
[1][MBIE request email].

 

Nâku noa, nâ

Ministerial Services

 

Corporate Services, Finance & Enablement

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

15 Stout Street, Wellington 6011 |  PO Box 1473 Wellington 6140

 

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Tēnā koe Erika,

Thank you for your OIA request, received on 24 August 2023 to the Ministry
of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).
Please find attached an extension letter from MBIE.

Ngā mihi,
Workplace Relations and Safety Policy Branch
Labour, Science and Enterprise Group
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE)

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Dear Erika

 

Please find attached the response to your OIA request.

 

 

Ngā mihi

 

Ministerial Services

Engagement, Communications and Ministerial Services

Email: [1][email address]

 

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

15 Stout Street, Wellington, PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140

[2]www.mbie.govt.nz

 

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2. http://www.mbie.govt.nz/

Kia ora Erika,

 

Thanks for your follow-up email about the OIA response. We have provided
some information below which hopefully provides more clarity about our
approach.

 

The approach we took to this response was to include the emails that led
up to the approval of the wording that you requested, including those from
people who have now left MBIE. We looked for emails, documents,
correspondence, and minutes which were related to the wording set out in
your request leading up to the time the sentence was published on the
bus.govt.nz website. We deduced that the relevant time period was December
2021, so have included emails and documents from this month.

 

As you are aware, some of what we have provided to you has been marked as
legally privileged or out of scope. The out of scope sections of the
response relate to other content e.g., how the vaccination assessment tool
works, process-related issues like how the website content will be
published.

 

I hope this explanation is helpful.

 

Ngā mihi,

Charlotte de Feijter  

Team leader, Employment Relations policy

MBIE

 

Ministerial Services

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

15 Stout Street, Wellington 6011 | PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140

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