Fact check: Did City of Prince George employees lose their jobs over vaccine mandates?

The Citizen put city council candidate Paul Serup’s claims about the city’s vaccine mandate to the test.

In media interviews and public forums, Prince George city council candidate Paul Serup has said the City of Prince George should end its COVID-19 vaccine mandate and compensate employees who lost their jobs or hours because of the mandate.

The implication is that City of Prince George employees who chose not to be vaccinated were dismissed or punished with reduced hours. But did that actually happen? “Fully vaccinated” means having both doses of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine series approved by Health Canada, or 14 days after a single-dose COVID-19 vaccines series approved by Health Canada, or anyone else the B.C. Centre for Disease Control defines as “fully immunized,” a spokesperson for the City of Prince George in an email.

The city’s vaccine mandate policy contains a provision respecting the B.C. Human Rights Code and requires that the city provide accommodation for employees on human rights grounds, the spokesperson said.

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