{"id":69761,"date":"2020-12-17T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T12:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=69761"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:01","slug":"braley-rattai-can-covid-19-vaccinations-be-mandated-short-answer-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/12\/braley-rattai-can-covid-19-vaccinations-be-mandated-short-answer-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"BRALEY-RATTAI: Can COVID-19 vaccinations be mandated? Short answer: Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Braley-Rattai, Assistant Professor of Labour Studies at Brock University, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/can-covid-19-vaccinations-be-mandated-short-answer-yes-151958?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2017%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2017%202020+CID_686a61c30ef5fc3443c5185dac84b147&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Can%20COVID-19%20vaccinations%20be%20mandated%20Short%20answer%20Yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the complex situation faced by employers that wish to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for their employees.<\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe process of vaccinating\u00a0Canadians against COVID-19 has begun. With the rise in\u00a0vaccine hesitancy, and many refusing even to wear masks, people are wondering whether COVID-19 vaccination could be mandatory.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>It could, in particular contexts. One is the workplace, through employer policies. Another is through legislation. However, neither possibility is simple or straightforward.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Workplace policies<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Employers have many reasons to consider mandatory vaccination. One reason is their legal duty to take \u201cevery reasonable precaution\u201d to create a safe working environment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While that duty compels some pandemic-related directives, there is\u00a0disagreement about whether a vaccination policy\u00a0is among them. Either way, any subsequent policy would be subject to certain considerations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/can-covid-19-vaccinations-be-mandated-short-answer-yes-151958?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2017%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%2017%202020+CID_686a61c30ef5fc3443c5185dac84b147&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Can%20COVID-19%20vaccinations%20be%20mandated%20Short%20answer%20Yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Braley-Rattai, Assistant Professor of Labour Studies at Brock University, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about the complex situation faced by employers that wish to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for their employers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7,6,38],"tags":[7114,110,522,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69762,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69761\/revisions\/69762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}