Friday is the deadline for federal public service employees to declare their immunization status, but unions believe there are still many questions about how requests for accommodations will be handled.
The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat indicates that 240,000 employees have filed their vaccination status certificates with the government, out of approximately 268,000.
Chris Aylward, president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, says there is a big policy vacuum when it comes to deciding whether unvaccinated people should be accommodated under the Canada Act. human rights.
He says unions are very concerned that it is up to individual managers to determine whether employees’ religious or conscientious beliefs regarding vaccines are valid.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said exemptions will be difficult and expensive to obtain, and simply having the personal belief that vaccines are “bad” will not be enough.
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Unvaccinated employees who have not received any offers of accommodation will be placed on unpaid leave effective Nov. 15, and the government has previously said those employees will not be eligible for EI benefits.
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