Toronto District School Board (TDSB) staff currently working in schools while awaiting COVID-19 exemptions either for medical or religious reasons.The board has been posting its workers’ vaccination status’ for the past little while and confirmed to Global News there are 920 staff members working in schools while waiting for their exemptions.In total, there are 1,093 TDSB staff members working both in and out of schools who are waiting on exemptions.
About 290 unvaccinated Toronto District School Board staff given temporary exemptions “We continue to review medical and creed-based exemption requests, however they’re complex and in many cases have required us to gather more information from the employee,” TDSB spokesperson Ryan Bird said.