Protect you, your family and your bubble, Vaccinate Cane Growers urged

Sugar Cane Growers and gangs if you haven’t been vaccinated, ensure that you do. It doesn’t matter if you work in the cane fields, mills or offices, it is your duty to ensure that you demonstrate the basic responsibility to adhere to all the COVID-safe measures issued by the Ministry of Health.

So you should be bold enough to get vaccinated to protect you, your family, gangs and key stakeholders around your bubble.

If our worst hit, tourism stakeholders are fully supporting the Fijian Government’s call on COVID-19 vaccinations being a requirement of both employers and employees within the workplace, so should the sugar industry.

As highlighted by the Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama last week, the management and staff of many businesses in Fiji are already fully vaccinated, which is wonderful.

“All others in the private sector must follow their lead.

“In accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act, we are requiring that all employers and employees in the private sector and statutory bodies receive at least one dose of the vaccine by 1 August 2021.

“It is simply unfair for anyone to risk the health of their co-workers or their customers, or risk undermining a business’s operations because they refuse to get a vaccination that is known to be safe and effective.

It does not matter if you are the CEO of a company, a sole trader, or a salaried employee -- you must be vaccinated to continue working or else that business will risk being shut down.

No jabs, no job -- that is what the science tells us is safest and that is now the policy of government and enforced through law.

A humble plea get the jab if you haven’t to protect yourselves, those that you love and its trickle down effects as well.

We are not only helping ourselves personally but the economy as well!