Mon Nov 21, 2022 – 8:24 pm EST
TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) – Vaccine-free employees working for Canada’s largest public transit network will soon be allowed to return to work if they choose.
Amid mounting legal pressure, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) said it was dropping a workplace COVID jab mandate starting November 27.
Hundreds of TTC workers chose to not get the COVID shots, and many launched legal challenges against their employees.
The TTC said in a press release last Thursday that, despite allowing the vaccine-free to come back to work, it will be amending its employment conditions so that should a jab policy ever be enacted again workers must abide by it.
Returning workers will not be given backpay but will keep seniority says the TTC.
In August 2021, the TTC announced that all its employees had to get the COVID jabs starting September 7, face being placed on leave without pay or face termination.
At the time, the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 representing workers blasted the move by the TTC mandating COVID-19 vaccines by early September.
In a statement last Friday, the union said it is pleased with the news but added the mandatory COVID
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