As restrictions lift, can an employer enforce masking in the workplace?

Interview Summary

As COVID-19 restrictions across the province of Alberta lift, questions about workplace safety and employee rights have also arisen. Will employers be able to enforce masking in the workplace and other prior health and safety measures? Will employees who were let go due to vaccine mandates be reinstated at their jobs?

Lior Samfiru, a Calgary employment lawyer and national co-managing partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP spoke with Ted Henley on Global News Radio 770 CHQR to answer this question and more.

Interview Notes

• Can a workplace still ask an employee to wear a mask if public health restrictions regarding masks have been lifted?
• Will the ability to ask employees to wear PPE depend on the level of risk COVID-19 still poses?
• Are employers still able to request a negative COVID-19 test from employees?
• What will the lifting of restrictions mean for vaccine policies at work?
• What is considered reasonable under employment law in regards to workplaces policies?

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