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Prominent Caribbean Law Professor, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine on Thursday said COVID-19 vaccination could be made compulsory without violating human rights, constitution and the law.<\/p>

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\u201cIt\u2019s a fairly easy sell for me to accept that mandatory vaccination is constitutionally legitimate and we have good precedent for it since we already have laws mandating vaccines for children\u2019s entry into schools,\u201d said Ms. Belle Antoine, the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies\u2019 campus in Trinidad.<\/p>\n

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Delivering a presentation to\u00a0 a discussion on \u201cMandatory Vaccination\u201d that was organised by the \u201cOrganization of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Association and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Bar Association, she said \u201ccompulsory requirement\u00a0 for the COVID-19 vaccine is justifiable in law\u201d constitutionally or in the private sector.<\/p>

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At the same time, she said there are social and industrial relations implications which could make compulsory vaccination legal but not desirable.\u00a0Professor Bell Antoine said the key is to take the route that poses the least hurdle for human rights such as those dealing with socioeconomic considerations, and the right to health, safety and life, based on reasonableness based on the constitution or private action or labour laws as well as proportionality. Significantly, several of the constitutions specify public health\u2026 and even going further, infectious diseases as acceptable rationales for limiting rights,\u201d the Law Professor said. In that regard, she believed that employers would be persuaded to follow the constitutional provisions.<\/p>

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Responding to the view in some circles that the law does not provide for mandatory vaccination, Professor Belle Antoine said when the law is silent the assumption is that it is permissible unless the court rules otherwise.<\/p>\n

Noting that the right to liberty can be abridged when there is an infectious contagious disease, Professor Belle Antoine said the trend was to lean in favour of ensuring public health rather than prioritise individual rights. She said already rights to free movement had been curtailed by Trinidad and Tobago by preventing citizens from returning home due to the pandemic, states of emergency and the wearing of masks. Professor Belle Antoine recommended that rights be balanced for the greater good by examining. That, she said, could be done by examining the levels of risks facing those who are designated frontline workers compared to those who are not as well as the availability of other methods such as personal protective equipment, social distancing and the wearing of masks. \u201cIf science shows that the vaccine is not going to be so effective, then limiting rights may not be justifiable,\u201d she said.<\/p>

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The Law Professor argued that employers could decide on compulsory vaccination based on the risk that workers face at their workplaces because of the need to ensure workers\u2019 health and safety and those of others. \u201cHigh-risk environment will make it more reasonable to compel vaccines and a low-risk workplace, maybe social distancing and homework and so on will be sufficient and so it will be less reasonable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Professor said although amending the terms and conditions of work should not be encouraged, there are exceptional circumstances such as health and safety that could justify employers making the necessary changes, \u201cI disagree that requiring a vaccine will be an unlawful, unilateral change in terms and conditions of employment because health and safety is also a contractual term and that will trump others and, of course, we know that in exceptional circumstances, you can change employment terms and conditions although we don\u2019t encourage it so in that sense where the employer seeks to honour that duty, it can\u2019t be said that terms and conditions are being altered,\u201d said the Labour Law expert.\u00a0 Professor Belle Antoine said employers could be held to be \u201cirresponsible or negligent\u201d for failing to take steps to protect the workers.<\/p>

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Another option could be \u201csoft law\u201d and an \u201cillusion of choice\u201d by giving persons the option of, for example, being unable to board flights of they\u00a0 are not vaccinated against the coronavirus.<\/p>

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Belize lists a number of workers, including teachers, as frontline workers who are encouraged be vaccinated against COVID-19 vaccine or take a weekly test. If they do not, they would not be allowed to work and would be considered absent from duty.<\/p>\n

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