A labour arbitrator has found it “reasonable” for Wilfrid Laurier University to impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates and continue to enforce them even when they’re no longer required by the local health authority.
Mark Wright, an arbitrator in Toronto, has ruled that Laurier University has the “management rights” to mandate vaccine policy for all students, staff, and faculty, and to carry on with it even if the local health authority had revoked the requirement.
Wright’s decision comes after appeals by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union against the university’s vaccine mandates.
“The policy was a reasonable exercise of management rights,” Wright wrote in his June 15 ruling, first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter,…