Arbitrator Awards Compensation to Toronto Health-Care Workers Dismissed for Refusing COVID Vaccine

Arbitrator Awards Compensation to Toronto Health-Care Workers Dismissed for Refusing COVID Vaccine
A health-care worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine in a file photograph. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
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An Ontario arbitrator has awarded termination and severance pay to 40 Toronto health-care workers who were fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccination.

Arbitrator John Stout made the decision in a case involving the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 145 and the William Osler Health System (WOHS).