A federal labour board has ruled that the Department of National Defence (DND) wrongly rejected a request for a religious exemption to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate from an employee, who was suspended in 2021 after refusing to take the vaccine.
Former DND employee and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) member Marvin Castillo resigned after DND denied his request for a religious exemption to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Castillo’s “sincere religious belief” should have been sufficient grounds to be exempted from taking the vaccine, according to the June 12 ruling by adjudicator Christopher Rootham of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter….