HALIFAX -- Canada is facing a potential wave of terminations tied to mandatory workplace vaccine policies as a growing number of employers require workers to be fully inoculated against COVID-19 - or risk losing their jobs, legal experts say.
“We've been contacted by thousands of people from across Canada who all have these ultimatums in front of them saying they have to be vaccinated by a certain date or risk losing their jobs,” employment lawyer Lior“We're going to see the biggest wave of terminations we've seen since the pandemic started,” he said, noting that his firm has been contacted by workers in a range of industries including health care, education, banks, construction and restaurants.
The situation has left legal experts grappling with the tension between protecting the rights of individual workers and ensuring employers meet their health and safety obligations toward staff, clients and the public. “With COVID being an acute illness with the potential for loss of life, the risk of harm is pretty high,” he said. “Employers are imposing those policies for valid reasons as they have a duty to keep their workplace safe.”
Pizzo added that many law firms are introducing mandatory vaccination policies for face-to-face meetings in the office. “I went through a lot of the cases and tribunals and the great majority are saying that while individual rights are important and you should do everything you can to respect them, in the time of a pandemic, reasonable limits are going to be given broad scope,” MacKay said. “Most restrictions that governments are doing have been found to be reasonable given threat of COVID-19.”
GAS PRICES.....just another way for government to claw back taxes for the fake covid19 scare
Restraunt owners stand together and open all doors to the public. Its time we all stood up to this dictatorship
Interesting to see how this is going to play out. Will those fired collect EI? Or be denied.
Well, I'm actively looking for work and am fully vaccinated. Looks like lots of opportunities are opening up.
Just Wrong.
Only if people don't provide proof of vaccination. So not a big deal. There are those who'll want the jobs
Good.
The risk of harm is actually pretty low . The recovery rate is high…99.8% I believe! Stop lying. Fake news!
This is so stupid, I'm sick of being separated like this, vaccinated from not. Something is wrong if they are bribing our country to be vaccinated. Open your eyes people!!!
“Waves of terminations”? Really? CdnMediaFails cdnpoli Toronto antivaxidiots antivaxxershills antivaxxershysters antivaxxers
IshatReza CTV headlines are on some next level type ish.
The same ones that protested lockdowns are now the ones being locked out 😂 the irony.
3.6 billion people are vaccinated in the world. So I don’t feel for people who will not get vaccinated until “they” research more.
Lots of able bodied and willing people to fill those jobs. Jobs with benefits and pensions most private sector working people would envy.
“ building back better”
Meh, those who want to work we'll get vaccinated those who don't, won't. They'll be replaced by immigrants.
The failures of a Trudeau dictatorship will come to light
B'bye now.
good, hire new people
Oh well
FNstrongvoice These people obviously don’t need the work. I’m sure there’s lots of people looking for a job that can replace them.
This is the best news ever.
Your body , their choice
So a conspiricy theory 2 years ago..life moves fast😂😒😒
Fine. Plenty of people are willing and able.
Good.
Good!
Looks like my future job opportunities will be opening up nicely.
Yeah and that’s going to help the health care. What are they going to do with the shortage of health workers. This mandatory vaccination thing, I get it, but people can’t be terminated. It’s human rights and livelihood……………
Time to get a nice governement job.
Some people are counting on winning in court. If so, you are foolish. Why waste time and having stress fighting when you could get a frigging shot
Sad that it’s come to this If a person has a deeply held fear of the vaccine rational or not they shouldn’t lose their job Frequent testing with rapid daily testing will catch most and the rest of us are vaccinated so unlikely to get severely sick if we get it Im vaccinated
I don’t know, I feel like the reaction to this virus has gotten slightly out of control. Maybe it’s just me 🤔
Alberta top doc got degree in Wuhan?
This headline is ridiculous.
Oooooohhh scary kiddies . With over 85 %of the population with one dose how many people will actually not get the vaccine to keep their job ? Not a wave more like a ripple.
Fire em all
Sweet. More jobs for the unselfish. GetVaccinatedNow
I'm sure there's vaccinated people who'd love to fill those spots!
The wonderful cleanse of 2021 will be remembered as a day where the light broke the darkness
Supply chains effected, hmm, where have I heard that before?
Time to start our own society. Looks like it will be that way anyways. Might aswell start now
Yet city hall employees have no such obligations or threats. NBA players get a special exemption to come in and out and play without a jab. Ford isn't kicking out unvaxxed members. Hypocrisy at its finest up here in the not so great north.
I think most Canadians have been conditioned well enough over the last 50 years to go along with this.
Yah so they can give the jobs to the imagrants at half the wages
the virus has less than 1% mortality rate for healthy adults with no secondary comorbidities and under age 65, both vaxxed and unvaxxed carry the virus. Those healthy individuals who have fractional risk of dying from it are being fired and cant go to certain venues, whats next?
It’s almost as if a certain part of the population in a democracy doesn’t want to follow draconian rulers.
Misleading. Canada is not facing any such wave of terminations.
hehe the poor slobs in the cities are soon the know what it's like to starve! Hope they grew food this year, it's gonna be a rough winter for them.
Ah Canadians excited about other people being termination for not taking an experimental shot they themselves didn't want. Very group think of ya. novaccineapartheid
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