A group consisting of hundreds of federal employees has launched a legal challenge of the Liberal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, with the trial set to begin on Nov. 28.
The Quebec-based group, known as Fonctionnaires unis or United Servants, consists of members working in various federal departments including the Canada Revenue Agency, Service Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and Canada Border Services Agency.
United Servants was created last October in response to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate imposed by the government on Oct. 6, 2021, requiring all federal workers to either get two doses or be suspended without pay unless they obtained exemptions approved through the policy.
“Up to now, we did not want to make our struggle public because, as federal employees, we are not supposed to criticize the government. But I think the time has come to let the public know about the upcoming trial,” Bernard Desgagné, the group’s coordinator, told The Epoch Times.
The trial will be held at the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Board in Ottawa, an independent quasi-judicial tribunal responsible for administering the grievance adjudication system in the public service and in Parliament, including addressing issues of layoffs, among other priorities.
“We hope that federal public servants who were not aware of our grievances and other legal challenges will hear about us,” said Desgagné, who has worked as a public servant for 28 years.
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