That's what I'm responding to.
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This is astonishing. In any sane system, agreeing to be tested regularly would be a condition of employment in the managed isolation and quarantine system.
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Sure, IF you're applying for a new job. Are the managed isolation services all staffed by new hires? That doesn't seem like the case.
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The problem is simple. Section 11 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020, assented to 13 May 2020, at Subsection 1, details the orders the Minister or the Director-General may make. The DG may make these orders if they are urgently needed and are the most appropriate way of addressing these matters. (Section 10).
Subsection 1(a)(viii) allows the Director General of Health to require persons to:
report for and undergo a medical examination or testing of any kind, and at any place or time, specified and in any specified way or specified circumstances:
That means the DG Health, Ashley Bloomfield, at any point could have issued an order requiring testing of MIQ and border staff if he thought it warranted.
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I'm sceptical this could be effectively pulled off. You can't turn around and make testing a condition of employment for people where this wasn't already the case. At least not without push back.