A charitable society founded by a Vernon lab tech who lost her job along with hundreds of other B.C. health-care workers who refused the COVID-19 vaccine has launched a class-action lawsuit against provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.

A notice of civil claim brought under the Class Proceedings Act by Terri Perepolkin and Jedediah Ferguson was filed Oct.13 in BC Supreme Court in Victoria.

Perepolkin says she hasn’t worked since the mandate at the start of the COVID pandemic and that she and her husband sold their home to afford life on a single paycheque. Meanwhile, she has been home schooling their children.

Perepolkin and others were fired two years ago after holding out against the vaccine.