Jabless Jobs has been assisting unvaccinated Canadians and those who do not disclose their COVID-19 vaccine status by connecting them with like-minded employers. .“I wasn’t starting out to be some sort of activist,” said Jabless Jobs CEO and founder George Douklias in a Tuesday interview. .“I was trying to solve a problem for myself, and it just blew up because it was solving a problem for many other people.” .Douklias said he started Jabless Jobs in 2021 because he was looking for work. He said he was working for an employer who supported COVID-19 vaccine mandates and knew “he would be dropping the hammer on me.” .For all of the positions at other companies he wanted to apply for, he said they required applicants to disclose their vaccine status. He formed a Telegram group called Jabless Jobs Vancouver, and people loved it. .Douklias formed a website to help match unvaccinated people with employers who might hire them. All job applicants need to do is tap on the job title, read the description, and submit a resume. .It costs $75 for employers to post a job on the website for six months. Every job is vetted to ensure employers do not ask about vaccine status. .Some of the jobs on the website right now are for a bookkeeper at Ashcroft and Associates, a heat treater at Bayson Heat Treating, and a sprinklerfitter at Frontier Fire Protection. Douklias said there have been a number of job openings in private medical clinics, school pods, and restaurants. .He said there have been 470 employers who made accounts with Jabless Jobs, with some of them posting multiple positions. The employment service estimates it has set up about 400 people with jobs. .Jabless Jobs has started to move into the United States. He said it's looking into expanding into Australia. .While a number of employers have rescinded their vaccine mandates, Douklias said “they have lost the trust of the employees they had laid off or fired or put on leave without pay.” .“I think it’s just a matter of respecting people’s choices,” he said. .The Canadian government suspended its vaccine mandate for domestic and outbound international travellers, federally-regulated transportation employees, and government workers in June..READ MORE: Federal government to suspend vaccine mandates for travellers, federal workers next week.“We are now able to adjust our policy because we have followed consistently, the best advice from public health authorities," said Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc..Suspending the vaccine mandate allowed unvaccinated federal government workers to be taken off of their unpaid leaves.
