Australian Employer Ordered to Pay Compensation for Vaccine Injured in ‘Significant Precedent’

‘Employers are now going to think twice about forcing people to get a vaccine,’ Senator Gerard Rennick said.

A nurse prepares a Pfizer vaccine overseen by a doctor in Sydney, Australia, on Oct. 3, 2021. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

An Australian court has ordered an employer to pay weekly compensation and medical expenses to an employee after ruling that a vaccine injury that occurred from a workplace directive is compensable under the law.

Daniel Shepherd, 44, worked as a child and youth support worker with South Australia’s Department of Child Protection when he developed pericarditis after receiving his third Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in February 2022.