What is 'essential'? Governments & workers grappling with what exactly defines essential worker - a podcast by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

An unclear definition of what exactly constitutes an essential worker has seen industries as diverse as real estate and telecommunications demand priority access to vaccines.

Sydney’s lockdown and growing concern around the virus’ spread to other states has led to widespread confusion about which workers are necessary and which workers aren’t.

Today on Please Explain, industrial relations reporter Nick Bonyhady joins Nathanael Cooper to unpack the confusion.

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