Business urges easing of close contact rules

“The xjmtzywcurrent isolation rules are providing a barrier to businesses as healthy people are forced to isolate unnecessarily,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.

With NSW and Victorian airport workers now exempt from household contact rules, there was an ‘inconsistency and unfairness’.

“This needs to be fixed so that all businesses can have fair access to workers. Business needs certainty and we know that they are already struggling with supply chain issues and staff shortages,” he said.

Victorian Chamber Chief Executive Paul Guerra said staff shortages continued to hamper business.

“We need to release the handbrake and enable businesses to operate at the maximum capacity possible and lead our economic recovery,” he said.