Fri Jan 27, 2023 – 8:16 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A provincial labor arbitrator from New Brunswick ruled that COVID workplace jab mandates were personally “devastating” but still lawful.
Blacklock’s Reporter noted that arbitrator Michel Doucet made the ruling from a case involving six utility workers from New Brunswick, who had strong beliefs concerning the safety of the COVID shots.
The workers were employed at Point Lepreau nuclear plant, which is operated by the New Brunswick Power Corporation, a public utility.
The workers were suspended from their jobs for five months for not revealing their jab status. They were not allowed to show proof of a negative COVID test.
Two of the six workers later resigned from their jobs.
Doucet ruled that he accepted the workers “were faced with a difficult choice” and that it was not his place to “question” the “beliefs” of the workers when it came to the COVID shots.
He also said that he understood the impact of jab mandates “may be long lasting and personally devastating.”
“To be deprived of an opportunity to work in the context of a personal decision about a medical procedure is a matter that properly
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