"Labor chief: COVID-19 vaccination only required among staff of restaurants with dine-in services", 22 October 2021

The Department of Labor and Employment has set the record straight on the issue of requiring COVID-19 vaccination among workers.

[...] Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said there is “no such thing as mandatory vaccination” and there is no law requiring employees to have COVID-19 shots. But he said there is an exception when it comes to workers in the restaurant industry, which is indicated in a resolution from the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF).

"There is no law which requires everybody, including workers, to get vaccinated. It is only a resolution of the IATF which requires that in operating a restaurant, you have to have your workers vaccinated. That is the only instance where vaccination is required of workers. Otherwise, there is no law which requires everybody, including workers, to be vaccinated," he explained.

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