A group of 1,100 employees and contractors at Canada Natural Resources Ltd. has written to CEO Tim McKay demanding the company stop plans for a mandatory vaccine program..Their Calgary lawyer, James S. M. Kitchen, sent McKay a 147-page letter on why such a program would be dangerous..Kitchen said the 1,100 staff haven’t been vaccinated yet against COVID-19 and have no plans to do so..“.. (I)t is to request that CNRL rescind its COVID vaccine mandate and instead negotiate a mutually agreeable solution with my clients that does not involve the misery to both CNRL management and the CNRL workforce that a continued mandate will inevitably result in,” Kitchen writes in the letter obtained by the Western Standard..“My clients are not litigious. They are severely normal people who want to quietly live their lives, work hard at their jobs, enjoy the fruits of their labour in a free society, and have their employers and governments respect their health choices and bodily autonomy. They have no ideological axe to grind with CNRL, or political point to prove in court.”.Kitchen said his clients would prefer to negotiate a settlement with the company over the issue, but are prepared to go to court if necessary..“It is trite law that unilaterally altering an employment contract to add, as a condition of continued employment, that an employee receive an unnecessary and potentially harmful medical intervention is a breach of contract and, if enforced through termination, constitutes wrongful dismissal,” Kitchen claims..“Dignity, self-respect, and common decency requires that my clients draw a line before they find their bodies and their rights wholly owned by government and their employers.”.Kitchen said his clients are refusing the vaccines for numerous reasons including: They are “dangerous and ineffective,” natural immunity is growing and freedom of choice on what to put in your own body..“First, it’s apparent to my clients that CNRL may not have reviewed enough scientific and medical literature prior to implementing its COVID vaccine mandate,” writes Kitchen..“Given how many CNRL employees will receive the COVID vaccines against their will only to keep their jobs — and the percentage of how many recipients of the vaccines incur serious injuries — it is likely that CNRL will face tort claims from employees harmed by the COVID vaccines, certainly much more likely than the remote possibility that CNRL will face claims from someone harmed by COVID itself..“If CNRL’s primary concerns are optics and appeasing public health authorities, my clients respectfully suggest that picking a fight unnecessarily with its faithful employees is not good means to satisfying those concerns.”.The Western Standard has reached out to CNRL for comment but hasn’t heard back yet..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
A group of 1,100 employees and contractors at Canada Natural Resources Ltd. has written to CEO Tim McKay demanding the company stop plans for a mandatory vaccine program..Their Calgary lawyer, James S. M. Kitchen, sent McKay a 147-page letter on why such a program would be dangerous..Kitchen said the 1,100 staff haven’t been vaccinated yet against COVID-19 and have no plans to do so..“.. (I)t is to request that CNRL rescind its COVID vaccine mandate and instead negotiate a mutually agreeable solution with my clients that does not involve the misery to both CNRL management and the CNRL workforce that a continued mandate will inevitably result in,” Kitchen writes in the letter obtained by the Western Standard..“My clients are not litigious. They are severely normal people who want to quietly live their lives, work hard at their jobs, enjoy the fruits of their labour in a free society, and have their employers and governments respect their health choices and bodily autonomy. They have no ideological axe to grind with CNRL, or political point to prove in court.”.Kitchen said his clients would prefer to negotiate a settlement with the company over the issue, but are prepared to go to court if necessary..“It is trite law that unilaterally altering an employment contract to add, as a condition of continued employment, that an employee receive an unnecessary and potentially harmful medical intervention is a breach of contract and, if enforced through termination, constitutes wrongful dismissal,” Kitchen claims..“Dignity, self-respect, and common decency requires that my clients draw a line before they find their bodies and their rights wholly owned by government and their employers.”.Kitchen said his clients are refusing the vaccines for numerous reasons including: They are “dangerous and ineffective,” natural immunity is growing and freedom of choice on what to put in your own body..“First, it’s apparent to my clients that CNRL may not have reviewed enough scientific and medical literature prior to implementing its COVID vaccine mandate,” writes Kitchen..“Given how many CNRL employees will receive the COVID vaccines against their will only to keep their jobs — and the percentage of how many recipients of the vaccines incur serious injuries — it is likely that CNRL will face tort claims from employees harmed by the COVID vaccines, certainly much more likely than the remote possibility that CNRL will face claims from someone harmed by COVID itself..“If CNRL’s primary concerns are optics and appeasing public health authorities, my clients respectfully suggest that picking a fight unnecessarily with its faithful employees is not good means to satisfying those concerns.”.The Western Standard has reached out to CNRL for comment but hasn’t heard back yet..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
