Can you refuse to work alongside an unvaccinated colleague in B.C.? “When I said that I had an issue with that, they said, ‘Well, if you don’t take unvaccinated people, you stand to be going without care,'” Colby said.Colby is a worker’s compensation client.She said WorkSafeBC contracts out her care to Bayshore HealthCare.“They said we didn’t have to send worker’s compensation clients vaccinated employees,” Colby said.Given the recent government mandate that all health-care workers, even those in private homes, must be fully vaccinated by Oct.
26, Colby is concerned this will create an influx of unvaccinated workers picking up jobs with private contractors.“This is only the tip of the iceberg because with all of these health-care workers.