Nursing homes prepare for shortage as 200 workers miss vaccine deadline – CBC
About 2,000 provincial employees missed the vaccination deadline, will be on unpaid leave indefinitely
Nov 19, 2021
Friday is the deadline for all provincial employees to be fully vaccinated or face unpaid leave, and the province is sticking by the plan.
“I think people were waiting for us to change our minds and we have not changed our mind,” Health Minister Dorothy Shephard said this week.
The government says long-term care workers, staff and volunteers in schools and licensed early learning and child-care centres, and other government employees who have not been fully vaccinated will be on unpaid leave starting Nov. 19.
On Thursday, Premier Blaine Higgs added one caveat, allowing people who have had their first dose and have booked a second dose to keep working after Friday.
“There’s been some recognition that if someone has the … ability or shown the ability to get their first vaccine then we would believe that they would indeed when the time is right to get their second vaccine,” Higgs said.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-vaccine-mandate-deadline-1.6253774
