{"id":84151,"date":"2021-08-19T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T20:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=84151"},"modified":"2021-08-20T00:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T04:30:43","slug":"porter-airlines-other-companies-to-require-covid-19-vaccine-or-negative-test-for-all-staff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/canada\/porter-airlines-other-companies-to-require-covid-19-vaccine-or-negative-test-for-all-staff-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Porter Airlines, other companies to require COVID-19 vaccine or negative test for all staff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toronto’s Porter Airlines has not operated any flights since March 2020. Porter, with flights currently scheduled to take off again next month, said Wednesday that staff must be fully vaccinated or present a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours of the start of shift. (Brent Lewin\/Bloomberg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Porter Airlines will require all of its staff to either get vaccinated against COVID-19 or test negative for the coronavirus before the start of every shift.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tory announces city employees must be vaccinated for COVID-19 by Oct. 30<\/a><\/p>\n

The Toronto-based airline, which is resuming flights next month after being grounded to passenger flights for almost a year and a half, said in a release on Wednesday that “team members must be fully vaccinated or present a negative COVID-19 test administered within 72 hours of the start of their shift.”<\/p>\n

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The airline says it is\u00a0“the first Canadian airline committed to introducing these important safety measures.”<\/p>\n

“Now every team member passengers come in contact with will either be fully vaccinated or recently tested. Working and flying with Porter will be a safer experience for everyone,” Porter’s CEO Michael Deluce said.<\/p>\n

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Employment lawyer\u00a0Adam Savaglio, a partner with\u00a0Scarfone Hawkins LLP\u00a0in Hamilton, says there are a lot of misconceptions and incorrect assumptions about the law when it comes to vaccination mandates.<\/p>\n

“They can’t necessarily compel, but they can certainly ask for evidence of vaccination because they have an underlying obligation to that worker\u00a0and others in the workplace to provide a healthy and safe workplace,” he said in an interview.<\/p>\n

More mandatory vaccination policies<\/h2>\n

The federal government recently said it plans to\u00a0mandate vaccination for federally regulated employers and workers, along with all passengers travelling by plane, boat or train.<\/p>\n

Numerous large companies including\u00a0Amazon,\u00a0Facebook,\u00a0Twitter and Google, have said they will require staff who choose to come into the office to be vaccinated before doing so.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Australian airline\u00a0Qantas announced a similar policy\u00a0that will require all staff to be vaccinated or show proof of a negative test before coming to work as of November.<\/p>\n

Unlike Canada, where more than 80 per cent of the eligible population has received at least one dose, the vast majority of Australians have yet to be vaccinated, so the airline’s push is an ambitious one.<\/p>\n

Live event giant\u00a0Live Nation also announced on Wednesday\u00a0it will require concert attendees at any of its events this fall to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n

And as first reported by the Globe and Mail on Wednesday,\u00a0financial services giant Sun Life\u00a0will also require, as part of a pilot program,\u00a0that any staff who choose to work in an office\u00a0must attest to being fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Questions about\u00a0enforcement<\/h2>\n

Employment lawyer Lindsay Scott says she expects more and more companies will make similar moves in the coming days and weeks.<\/p>\n

“With the federal government’s move on this point this week as well, I’m not surprised that more and more companies feel comfortable making this kind of policy,” the partner at\u00a0Paliare\u00a0Roland\u00a0LLP in Toronto said in an interview with CBC News.<\/p>\n

For Scott, the question is not whether such a vaccine mandate is legal \u2014 “It is,” she said \u2014 but how it will be enforced<\/p>\n

“The question is really what is going to be the outcome if somebody doesn’t comply? Most companies at the moment are saying that if somebody doesn’t comply, then there may have to be some sort of education session or perhaps they will be reassigned to duties that aren’t client or customer facing.”<\/p>\n

But she said most companies she’s heard of with this policy are not saying that non-compliance would be grounds for termination.<\/p>\n

Savaglio is more blunt, saying the consequences will be dire for companies that don’t consider mandated vaccinations for their employees.<\/p>\n

“It’s proven that those who are unvaccinated are more likely to suffer harmful consequences,” he said,\u00a0so beyond being liable for their employees, airlines like Porter could also be potentially liable for their passengers as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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