{"id":4738,"date":"2021-12-01T10:26:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2021-12-01T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:26:21","slug":"unvaccinated-n-s-government-employees-could-be-out-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2021\/12\/01\/unvaccinated-n-s-government-employees-could-be-out-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Unvaccinated N.S. government employees could be out of work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4712\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4712\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tim-Houston-Nov-17-21-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits at a desk in front of a row of Nova Scotia flags\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tim-Houston-Nov-17-21-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Tim-Houston-Nov-17-21.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Premier Tim Houston. Photo Communications Nova Scotia<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The deadline has passed for mandated employees to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial civil servants were given until the end of November to have at least a first dose of vaccine or risk being put on unpaid leave from their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In a release, Premier Tim Houston says he has been told there would be few disruptions to service as 99 percent of provincial government employees have been vaccinated with at least one dose.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development says some school bus routes in Halifax may be impacted but those will be covered off by other drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Long-term care facilities across the province are keeping a close eye the number of unvaccinated employees as well.<\/p>\n<p>The sector already struggles to maintain staffing levels and anyone not reporting for work could affect care at those facilities.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Seniors and Long-Term Care the shortfall could be made up by offering full time employment to existing casual and part time workers.<\/p>\n<p>Employment agencies and travelling nursing staff could also be brought in.<\/p>\n<p>Just 20 exemptions to the vaccine mandate have been granted.<\/p>\n<p>Two of those came from the 134 human rights requests and 18 exemptions were issued from 49 medical requests.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 85 percent of Nova Scotians have been vaccinated with one dose and 81.3 percent are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>E-mail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:edhalversonnews@gmail.com\">edhalversonnews@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Twitter: @edwardhalverson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to the broadcast of this story, press play below.<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4738-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Vaccine-Mandate-Deadline-Nov-30-21.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Vaccine-Mandate-Deadline-Nov-30-21.mp3\">https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Vaccine-Mandate-Deadline-Nov-30-21.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline has passed for mandated employees to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19. Provincial civil servants were given until the end of November to have at least a first dose of vaccine or risk being put on unpaid leave from their jobs. In a release, Premier Tim Houston says he has been told there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[489,419,98],"class_list":["post-4738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-government-employees","tag-mandatory-vaccination","tag-tim-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4740,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions\/4740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}