{"id":33895,"date":"2021-07-09T20:30:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/no-jabs-no-job-fiji-threatens-unvaccinated-workers-with-sack"},"modified":"2021-07-09T20:30:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T11:30:59","slug":"no-jabs-no-job-fiji-threatens-unvaccinated-workers-with-sack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33895","title":{"rendered":"No jabs, no job: Fiji threatens unvaccinated workers with sack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says country \u2018cannot afford to waste time getting back the lives we know and love\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fiji\u2019s government has announced it will make Covid-19 vaccinations a mandatory condition of work for civil servants and staff in the private sector, with some people liable to lose their jobs if they do not comply.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, said in a televised address on Thursday night that employers and employees in the private sector should receive at least one dose of vaccine by 1 August.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/no-jabs-no-job-fiji-threatens-unvaccinated-workers-with-sack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says country \u2018cannot afford to waste time getting back the lives we know and love\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFiji\u2019s government has announced it will make Covid-19 vaccinations a mandatory condition of wor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33896,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895\/revisions\/33896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}