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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Compulsory to continue to work at your place of employment is quite a bit different from in the job description when you signed on.
Do you honestly think if your company says “Starting Monday, you must start doing X or you’re fired,” then doing X is voluntary? Losing your livelihood is pretty powerful means of coercion.
The Canadian government didn’t just mandate that frontline workers in public-facing jobs must be vaccinated. Every federal public servant, and every employee in federally regulated transportation industries, was hit with vaccine mandates. That clearly wasn’t a policy targeted at particular jobs or roles - hard to see why a rail router working on a laptop from home posed a particular risk to covid transmission. It was a blunt instrument meant to coerce as many Canadians as possible into getting the vaccine.
You might think those extreme measures were warranted. But that doesn’t mean they were any less coercive. Tens of thousands of Canadians who did not want to get vaccinated only did so because they couldn’t afford to lose their jobs.
You seem to have a very narrow definition of compulsory. Is insuring your vehicle compulsory in Alberta? Like almost everything else we call ‘compulsory’, nobody actually forces you to do it - you just get fined if you don’t.
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OHS says you have a duty of care to protect your employees. This isn’t new. So again if your duty of care under occupations health and safety is coercive then it’s meaningless. An employer has to prevent exposure of their employees to PFAS chemicals is stopping the use of PFAS chemicals coercive?
Ive accepted your definition of compulsory. But given your broad definition of compulsory your argument is without merit. The requirement of a health and safety measure in a workplace or a change in health and safety measure in a work place is routine and a non event. These policies existed in many areas prior and employers likely had a duty to do something.
Essentially you are saying that any employer following the OHS laws or introducing any new policy to be followed is coercive. It’s a meaningless discussion with such a broad definition.
Everything the state does is a compulsion so it doesn’t matter