A federal labour board has agreed to hear the case of a Parks Canada employee denied a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine, after the government argued she had missed deadlines for filing a grievance through the union.
Jennifer Squires, who worked as a senior financial services adviser, applied to the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board for a time extension on a grievance against her employer, Parks Canada, who placed her on administrative leave without pay for not complying with a policy on mandatory COVID vaccination.
In a decision released on April 20, and reported by Blacklock’s Reporter on May 29, adjudicator Marie-Claude Perrault ruled the grievance is “neither trivial nor vexatious.”…