11/18/2021
Mike MacLellan Kelsey Orth had the pleasure of speaking to members of the Barrie Construction Association about how to build a valid COVID-19 vaccine policy in the construction industry. We had the benefit of a flurry of legal activity over the past week and a half. They reviewed four recent decisions regarding COVID-19 workplace policies. All four came to slightly different conclusions, and in our estimate, all four are correctly decided based on their specific contexts. In fact, that is a key finding in each of these labour arbitration decisions: that a policy will stand or fall based on the specific circumstances of the specific workplace.
Template or precedent policies can be very useful as a starting point, but there is just no substitute for a properly-drafted and personalized COVID-19 workplace policy that takes into account things like: what restrictions or obligations need to be in place; what alternatives exist; can employees be easily accommodated or have their duties modified.
BCA members can contact the Association for a copy of our presentation slides, and a link to the live recording will be posted as a podcast on https://lnkd.in/gftsbYNc.
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