Any border worker who refuses a vaccination will soon be removed from their front-line job.
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says they can't force people to take the jab, but nor is acceptable to have unvaccinated people working in New Zealand's main protection against the virus ravaging other parts of the world.
He says about 5 percent of the border workforce have refused a vaccine, for a variety of reasons.
Hipkins says he would never make immunisation mandatory, as that runs the risk of hardening any anti-vaccination stance.
RNZ political editor Jane Patterson reports.
