Three major public sector unions are challenging federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates for government employees, saying that putting unvaccinated workers on unpaid leave when they could have worked from home is “unjust.”
The Liberal government’s mandatory vaccination policies, introduced on Oct. 6, 2021, required all federal employees to be fully vaccinated with two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, including those working remotely. Workers who were unwilling to be fully vaccinated or refused to disclose their vaccination status would be put on leave without pay.
