Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,

The US government announced in Jan 2025 that it would reinstate with back pay the 8000 discharged military workers who objected to Covid 19 vaccine mandates. Only 43 rejoined according to the 4 December 2024 Whitehouse report here https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up... on page 384.

For 2021 onwards, would you please share
1 the number of reinstatements for any unvaccinated workers by year as a result of MBIE mediations and Employment Relations Authority determinations.

2. The number of appeals to the employment court for vaccine mandates by year since 2021.

3 the number of unvaccinated workers burdened with legal costs as a result of employment relations authority determinations (from the daily tariff of $4500 for the first day)

4 To the chair of the Employment Relations Authority: please share any reviews, memos, comments and correspondence on this December 2021 US Whitehouse report on Covid regarding vaccine mandated workers particularly page 320 onwards about findings (link above) . The following are notable excerpts of the US Covid report:

Page 378

Our analysis strongly suggests that mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policies have had damaging effects on public trust, vaccine confidence, political polarization, human rights, inequities and social wellbeing. We question the effectiveness and consequences of coercive vaccination policy in pandemic response and urge the public health community and policymakers to return to non-discriminatory, trust-based public health approaches.

Page 380:
As Dr. Bardosh highlighted in the BMJ paper, vaccine mandates appear to have also
deepened political divisions. Rhetoric from some politicians and public health officials painted
the vaccine mandates as a necessary policy to combat the selfish, ignorant, or malevolent
“unvaccinated” who were perpetuating the pandemic. Americans wanted to be honestly educated about both the virus and the vaccines, not indoctrinated.

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome