Posted on 12/19/2021 8:15:46 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
The Saskatchewan Trucking Association (STA) is voicing concerns over the federal government’s plans to make vaccine mandates a requirement in the industry, saying it will further harm already strained supply chains.
Susan Ewart, executive director of the STA, said the industry is already facing a labour shortage and a vaccine mandate will only make things worse.
“Companies in Saskatchewan can’t find drivers either. So this is going to just make it more and more difficult for those companies to be able to have strong business operations,” said Ewart during a phone interview on Tuesday.
On Dec. 7, the Minister of Labour Seamus O’Regan Jr. announced the federal government will propose regulations making vaccination mandatory on federally regulated workplaces. The new regulations would affect industries such as road transportation, telecommunications and banking. The regulations would come into effect in early 2022.
In its release, the government said many employers in these industries have already made vaccination mandatory for their workers, but Ewart said she was not aware of any trucking companies in Saskatchewan doing so.
Ewart said vaccination rates at trucking companies in the province run the gamut from workforces that are almost completely vaccinated, to less so.
“We’ve got fleets who can cite they’ve got 90 per cent plus of their company vaccinated and others are way less than that. So they’re all over sort of the spectrum or the range. I think one of the challenges that the industry faces is that typically drivers do work very independently,” said Ewart.
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