Mandatory Vaccination Policies For Employees: Enforceable Or A Shot In The Dark? - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Food and Drug Regulations. The above legislative requirements are clearly motivated by safety concerns that arise from heightened risk of transmitting communicable diseases to at-risk individuals. There is no guidance (yet) from any government on whether vaccination for COVID-19 will be added to the list of required immunizations for such workers. More commonly, provinces have the power to order mandatory vaccination, at the direction of a government official or the province's Chief Medical Officer of Health. 5 However, at the time of writing, most of provinces, including Ontario, have s...