Resources

Click on the links below to navigate to the specific section of resources you are looking for:

Vaccine Fact Sheets & Monographs
MyHR Inquiry
Ethics Advisor Email
WorkSafeBC Claim
BCGEU Union Grievances

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Vaccine Fact Sheets & Monographs

Fact sheets were created by the respective manufacturers for the intended recipients of the vaccines. Monographs are more fulsome documentation on the use of the drug. The purpose of submitting these fact sheets and/or monographs is two fold:

1. 1. You are demonstrating to the employer why you have concerns as outlined by the manufacturer.

1. 1. You are substantiating the grounds for a Worksafe Claim.

You may choose to highlight the adverse effects, the fact that they are Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), and that they are still in the clinical trials phase.

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Pfizer

Vaccine Fact Sheet

Monograph

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Moderna

Vaccine Fact Sheet

Monograph

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Astrazeneca

Vaccine Fact Sheet

Monograph

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MyHR Inquiry

Please send this document to MyHR and personalize the inquiry as appropriate. Copy and paste the contents into an email or MyHR form submission. Ensure you fill in the two HIGHLIGHTED sections (i.e. whether your collection notice came from a supervisor/manager, and name of your ministry). Save correspondence to your PERSONAL email as well. You will need to submit a MyHR service request in order to submit this inquiry.

The purpose of this inquiry is to create grounds for a complaint to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia. To our knowledge, MyHR employees have not been provided a fulsome training on how to respond to these requests. Our experience is that they are redirecting the inquiry to the supervisor of the employee who submitted the request. The supervisor also doesn’t know the answers to the inquiry and so redirects the employer back to MyHR or states they will themselves will ask MyHR.

Our goal is to document this circular logic and prove that the employer is not being forthcoming with answers to the legitimate questions that are proposed in this inquiry.

MyHR Inquiry Template

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Ethics Advisor Email

Send an email to your ethics advisor and copy the Public Service Agency’s ethics advisor. A template to the ethics advisor webpage is below and also within the document linked below. Please read the entire document as there are parts you will need to remove before sending, don’t be careless!

Feel free to personal the inquiry as you see fit. The purpose of this action is to put pressure internally on the BC Public Service and point out their own documented inconsistencies.

How to find your ministry’s ethics advisor:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/careers-myhr/about-the-bc-public-service/ethics-standards-of-conduct/ethics-contacts

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WorkSafeBC Claim

Each member can file a WorkSafeBC Claim indicating that their employer is violating their right to health & safety by failing to address the concerns they brought forward to their employer representative (ie. vaccine fact sheet)

In the event an individual has experienced ANY adverse reaction since receiving one or more doses of any of the vaccines currently offered by the Canadian Government as a result of the policy implemented by the BC Public Service (on or after the initial announcement made on October 5, 2021) should file a WorkSafe Claim.

A member may also want to report a mental health injury related to the stress of this mandate which has resulted in physical symptoms (anxiety, depression, hair loss, weight gain/loss, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, inability to focus, rumination, etc.). A worker cannot be penalized by their employer for filing a workplace report. If you do experience negative actions after raising the health and safety issue at work you can file a Worker Complaint of Prohibited Action (form 57W1). See the statement below directly from WorkSafeBC.

If you become aware of unsafe or unhealthy conditions at the workplace and report it to someone at work or to WorkSafeBC, you are raising a health or safety issue. If you do so, you are legally exercising a right or carrying out a duty under the Workers Compensation Act.

It is illegal for an employer or union to penalize you for raising a health or safety issue at work. If you experience negative actions from your employer or union after raising a health and safety concern, you can submit a prohibited action (formerly known as a discriminatory action) complaint.

https://www.worksafebc.com/en/for-workers/just-for-you/prohibited-action-complaints

To report a health (including mental) injury:

1. 1. Report the health & safety concern to the employer to give them a chance to address your concerns.

1. 1. Call WorkSafeBC directly (this may be faster than filing the information online) – 1-888-967-5377

1. 1. They will start the claim and provide you with a claim number – they will explain the process to you. Even if you have missed work or contracted/paid a medical professional for your injury that could be reimbursed if your case goes through.

1. 1. You will receive a form to release confidential medical information related to your injury – you can fill it out online and submit or wait until you receive the physical form by mail.

1. 1. The claim is assigned to an adjudicator.

1. 1. The adjudicator calls you to establish exact events and dates.

1. 1. Then the case is assigned a case manager.

1. 1. The case manager contacts you to organize the evaluation from a specialist from their organization.

1. 1. If the injury is mental health related, you will proceed with the psychological assessment which can be long. Their prerogative is to dismiss injuries as work related but be adamant, persistent, and discerning about what you share.

1. 1. If your case is recognized you are allowed/granted to seek professional help at the expense of WorkSafeBC.

Things to note:

• • Your mental health is of the highest value and this IS a work related mental health injury.

• • The psychological evaluation will be long. Focus on how you are impacted (e.g. eating, sleeping, concentration, mood).

• • You’ll have a case manager assigned to you who arranges services need to mend from your injury (for example if mental health, a counselor).

• • If you don’t vibe with your counselor you can ask for a change.

• • If WorkSafeBC makes a decision on your claim which you do not agree with, there is free representation available to assist and defend you.

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BCGEU Union Grievances

An essential step in our resistance to the mandatory vaccination policy is to file a grievance with our respective unions. We are providing you with a number of resources that detail the articles of the main agreement between BCGEU and the BC Public Service Agency that have been violated. We are also attaching the grievance form you will need to fill out and submit to the Employer’s Step 2 designate and the Union area office. It is recommended to use a shop steward to file a grievance but it is not necessary.

You can copy the information listed in the Article documents right into your grievance form, verbatim.

An employee has thirty days from the date you were put on leave without pay to file a grievance related to that action.

BCGEU Grievance Form

Article 20.10 of the Main Agreement: Member placed on leave without pay with consent or request.
This resource is a Word document as you will need to insert the date you were placed on leave without pay.

Article(s) 16.6 and 1.7 of the Main Agreement [& Article 5 of the Correctional and Sheriff Services Component Agreement]: access to earned compensation has been denied.

Termination Grievance Form

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