Toronto District School Board place dozens of staffers on unpaid leave after they fail to disclose vaccine status
The board, the country’s largest, had said that its roughly 40,000 staff members would need to have two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by Nov. 1 – unless they receive an accommodation – or face consequences that include a leave of absence without pay or a termination of their employment.
The TDSB is one of a few school boards in the country that requires its staff to be fully vaccinated, unless they have an approved exemption. At the TDSB, five staff members have been granted medical exemptions. According to the board’s data, another 912 staff – 2.2 per cent – have requested either a medical or creed exemption. The board said that about 89 per cent of staff are either fully vaccinated, haveIn a meeting last week, staff informed trustees that the board had hired supply teachers and support staff to fill vacancies.
Similarly in British Columbia, the government has left it up to school districts to come up with vaccine mandate policies for staff. No board has required their staff be vaccinated, and on Tuesday, Surrey School District, the largest in B.C., decided against a vaccine mandate. Surrey has been one of the areas hardest hit by the virus.
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