Queensland business owners must retain the right to serve unvaccinated customers when the borders open, the state's peak business group says.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland has strongly opposed the government's plans for a two-tiered approach to personal freedoms when the state starts to reopen from next month.
"We expect that there will be some settings and venues that decide to be vaccinated-only. And in return, they will have eased restrictions," Deputy Premier Steven Miles told reporters on Monday.
The government is yet to clarify how the two-tiered approach will work but the CCIQ says business owners must be able to decide for themselves who they serve and who they turn away.
"They don't need ambiguous rules to follow, especially if it's not clear how it helps them or the wider economy's recovery," CCIQ policy manager Cherie Josephson said on Tuesday.
"If refusing entry to unvaccinated customers is the right thing to do for the business and the wider economy's COVID recovery, they need to be given resources to implement that change.
"But if it's not in their best interests, they should be able to continue running their business."
She also called for incentives for owners that opt to ban unvaccinated customers and staff.
Alex Johns is the co-owner of Solbar, a bar, restaurant and nightclub on the Sunshine Coast.
He says he won't be asking his staff to police the vaccination status of his patrons given the "fair torrent of abuse" they've copped over the last 18 months trying to enforce rules such as the mandatory wearing of masks.
"To have them try and tell an anti-vaxxer person they are not to come into the venue ... I can't expect them to do that. That's not fair and it's not our job. It's not our responsibility," he told reporters at a news conference with Opposition Leader David Crisafulli on Tuesday.
Mr Crisafulli accused the government of heaping task after task onto business owners and expecting the to "bear all of the cost, all of the anger".
"It shouldn't be small and family business owners who have to turn themselves and their staff into covid cops."
Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said there would be more detail to come soon but has flagged the rewards that might be possible for operators that declare themselves "vaccinated businesses".
"That might mean that all their staff are vaccinated, and all of their patrons or customers have to be fully vaccinated to enter the premises," Ms D'Ath said.
"That might mean that they have no restrictions whatsoever, no one per two square meters, they can operate 100 per cent, stand up, you know nightclubs, no masks, no restrictions whatsoever.
"Our priority was opening up their borders and allowing movement domestically and internationally. But we will be looking at those restrictions very shortly."
Ms D'Ath said Queensland wasn't doing anything new, and NSW and Victoria already had directives about the operation of businesses in relation to the vaccination status of their clients.
But she also acknowledged business owners were nervous about refusing access to unvaccinated people.
"We don't expect them to operate like police officers. They are not to take the law into their own hands and put the safety of their staff at risk."
