Arbitrator: Ontario Hospital Workers Unjustly Fired for Refusing COVID Vaccine

Arbitrator: Ontario Hospital Workers Unjustly Fired for Refusing COVID Vaccine
A bed in need of cleaning is moved in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at St. Paul's hospital in downtown Vancouver on April 21, 2020. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
Chris Tomlinson
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An Ontario arbitrator has determined that two hospital workers who were fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine were terminated unjustly by Humber River Hospital in Toronto after their union challenged the hospital’s actions.

Arbitrator Jasbir Parmar ruled on March 11 that the hospital did not have sufficient grounds to fire part-time clerical staff members Stacy Hughes and Marisol Sanchez.