加拿大将迎来一波解雇浪潮！

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打工人注意了！加拿大法律专家表示，加拿大目前正在面临一波潜在的解雇浪潮，这与工作场所强制性疫苗政策有关。因为越来越多的老板要求员工完全接种新冠疫苗，这导致部分人将面临失业的风险。加拿大的政府、机构和公司花了几个月的时间敲定疫苗要求，以遏制由Delta变种助长的新冠疫情。
律师们表示，随着强制疫苗接种的最后期限临近，未接种疫苗的工人可能很快就会被无薪休假或彻底解雇。Samfiru Tumarkin LLP的合伙人、就业律师Lior Samfiru表示：“来自加拿大各地的数千员工都收到了最后通牒，要求他们必须在某个日期之前接种疫苗，否则就会面临失业的风险。”“我们将看到自疫情爆发以来规模最大的一波裁员风潮。”他指出，包括医疗保健、教育、银行、建筑和餐馆在内的一系列行业的工人都面临了风险。

周三，加拿大总理特鲁多(Justin Trudeau)公布了新的强制性疫苗政策。要求政府服务、航空出行和铁路员工在10月底之前完全接种新冠疫苗。

联邦疫苗规定反映了各省的政策，如在新斯科舍省，要求所有学校和卫生保健工作者在11月底之前接种两剂新冠疫苗。

私营公司也制定了企业疫苗要求，员工全面接种疫苗的最后期限迫在眉睫。这种情况让法律专家们疲于应对保护工人个人权利和确保雇主履行对员工、客户和公众的健康和安全义务之间的紧张关系。还有一个问题是，应该为工人提供什么样的便利或豁免，以及最终被解雇的未接种疫苗的员工是否应得到补偿。

哈利法克斯Pink Larkin律师事务所的劳工和就业律师Ron Pizzo表示：“雇主负有确保工作场所安全的一切义务。”“由于新冠是一种可能造成生命损失的急性疾病，造成伤害的风险相当高。雇主实施这些政策是有正当理由的，因为他们也有责任保证工作场所的安全。”Pizzo说，他的公司接到了相当多不想接种疫苗的职员电话，他们想要反对雇主的疫苗接种强制要求。不过，他说，考虑到普通人群的疫苗接种率相对较高，他预计不会出现大规模解雇，这会导致公司没有足够的员工。

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Employment lawyers brace for first wave of COVID-19 layoffs as vaccine mandates kick in Social Sharing

Canada is facing a potential wave of terminations tied to mandatory workplace vaccine policies as a growing number of employers require workers to be fully inoculated against COVID-19 — or risk losing their jobs, legal experts say.

Governments, institutions and companies have spent months hammering out vaccine mandates in a bid to curb an unrelenting pandemic fuelled by variants.

As employer deadlines to be fully vaccinated approach, unvaccinated workers could soon be placed on unpaid leave or terminated altogether, lawyers say.

"We've been contacted by thousands of people from across Canada who all have these ultimatums in front of them saying they have to be vaccinated by a certain date or risk losing their jobs," employment lawyer Lior Samfiru, a partner with Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, said in an interview.

"We're going to see the biggest wave of terminations we've seen since the pandemic started," he said, noting that his firm has been contacted by workers in a range of industries including health care, education, banks, construction and restaurants.

"It will be significant."
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/covid-19-layoffs-1.6202871