BC Health-Care Workers Challenge Province’s Vaccine Mandate in Court

B.C. is the last remaining province to keep the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health-care workers in place.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry speaks in the press theatre at the legislature in Victoria, B.C., on March 10, 2022. The Canadian Press/Chad Hipolito

A lawsuit filed against B.C. Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry is underway as a group of health-care workers who lost their jobs for not receiving COVID-19 shots aim to have the province’s vaccine mandate removed.

The hearing centres around a lawsuit filed by non-profit group the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in Public, on behalf of nurses and doctors who did not get vaccinated and were fired for it.