Mon Oct 3, 2022 – 5:44 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The City of Toronto refuses to back down on vaccine requirements for certain city employees despite the fact that most mandates in Canada have been dropped.
On September 27, the City of Toronto announced in an email that they would be continuing to mandate vaccination for firefighters even after 13 among their ranks who were fired for remaining unvaccinated won a ruling that declared the termination of their employment was “unreasonable.”
“Enforcement mechanisms that do go beyond what is strictly necessary to accomplish the aims of the policy and in doing so invariably add disciplinary consequences that have nothing to do with the policy’s objectives should not be found to be reasonable,” the ruling, released on August 26 stated.
Although arbitrators found that the city’s vaccination policy was and continues to be reasonable, they also determined that the way in which the city enforced these vaccine requirements were “unreasonable.” The ruling said that there was no cause to fire employees who chose to remain unvaccinated, and that there were other measures that could be taken that did not involve full termination from one’s job.
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