The WA government’s removal of vaccination mandates in most workplaces from next Friday has left some employees in limbo after certain sectors indicated they would decide what is best for their company.

Such examples exist in some mining and resources companies as well as the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, while WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson is refusing to drop disciplinary action against more than two dozen officers who refused to get vaccinated.

One of them, former policeman Jordan McDonald, was critical of the McGowan government after the enforced vaccine mandates and told Liam Bartlett on 6PR Mornings he believed further negotiations or legal challenges from fellow officers would arise after the chief health officer’s announcement on Wednesday.

“There’s a wider challenge involving a whole bunch of industries, including our healthcare workers… and I envisage that [legal action] will still continue and we’ll see that out,” he said.

McDonald resigned in November 2021 because he did not agree with the mandates and did not want to be part of the enforcement arm of what he thought were questionable and inconsistent government directions.

“We all just want to go back to work… we want to put everything behind us, this has polarised the community, I think it’s time we moved on, everywhere else across the nation and across the world is starting to do that… the Federal plan as you know was move on about 80 per cent double jabbed.”

In late February McDonald sent an unofficial survey to 90 per cent of the police workforce, receiving 300 responses before WA Police removed it from the inboxes of most of its 9500 staff.