Can employers require vaccinations as a condition of returning to work?

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Can employers require vaccinations as a condition of returning to work? It appears they can although there are a few outs as noted in the link below.

Should they be able to require vaccinations as a condition of employment? It appears that is true too since employers have an obligation to follow employee safety laws and have fiduciary responsibilities to both employees and the company.


https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandto...if-workers-refuse-a-covid-19-vaccination.aspx
As COVID-19 vaccines become available, many employers are asking if they can require employees to get vaccinated, and what they can do if workers refuse. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) weighed in Dec. 16 with new guidance that answers some workplace vaccination questions.

Employers may encourage or possibly require COVID-19 vaccinations, but policies must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and other workplace laws, according to the EEOC.


https://www.rmwbh.com/can-texas-employers-require-employees-to-get-the-covid-19-vaccine/
yes, employers can require that employees be vaccinated once they are widely available. However, there are two main exceptions relating to disabilities and religious objections
 
Can employers require vaccinations as a condition of returning to work? It appears they can although there are a few outs as noted in the link below.

Should they be able to require vaccinations as a condition of employment? It appears that is true too since employers have an obligation to follow employee safety laws and have fiduciary responsibilities to both employees and the company.


https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandto...if-workers-refuse-a-covid-19-vaccination.aspx
As COVID-19 vaccines become available, many employers are asking if they can require employees to get vaccinated, and what they can do if workers refuse. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) weighed in Dec. 16 with new guidance that answers some workplace vaccination questions.

Employers may encourage or possibly require COVID-19 vaccinations, but policies must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and other workplace laws, according to the EEOC.


https://www.rmwbh.com/can-texas-employers-require-employees-to-get-the-covid-19-vaccine/
yes, employers can require that employees be vaccinated once they are widely available. However, there are two main exceptions relating to disabilities and religious objections

Do not know about other States, but in Texas a Right to Work State and employer can fire someone for no reason at all, without just cause they would have to pay unemployment benefits out of their State account but protecting their workers would be just cause so that is that. Get the vaccine everyone, eventualy you may have to do many things so do it and not risk catching the virus to prove a stupid point.
 
Why not, they can demand drug tests, so don’t see why they couldn’t do the same, although I’m sure it would be challenged legally
 
Do not know about other States, but in Texas a Right to Work State and employer can fire someone for no reason at all, without just cause they would have to pay unemployment benefits out of their State account but protecting their workers would be just cause so that is that. Get the vaccine everyone, eventualy you may have to do many things so do it and not risk catching the virus to prove a stupid point.

The liability issue seems like it would garner a lot of attention from employers...or their insurance companies.
 
Why not, they can demand drug tests, so don’t see why they couldn’t do the same, although I’m sure it would be challenged legally

A good point. I was required to be drug tested, but I don't know if all professions are required to do so.
 
It's a conundrum to be certain. However, isn't the reason for the vaccine is to keep one from getting sick from covid?
 
Can employers require vaccinations as a condition of returning to work? It appears they can although there are a few outs as noted in the link below.

Should they be able to require vaccinations as a condition of employment? It appears that is true too since employers have an obligation to follow employee safety laws and have fiduciary responsibilities to both employees and the company.


https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandto...if-workers-refuse-a-covid-19-vaccination.aspx
As COVID-19 vaccines become available, many employers are asking if they can require employees to get vaccinated, and what they can do if workers refuse. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) weighed in Dec. 16 with new guidance that answers some workplace vaccination questions.

Employers may encourage or possibly require COVID-19 vaccinations, but policies must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and other workplace laws, according to the EEOC.


https://www.rmwbh.com/can-texas-employers-require-employees-to-get-the-covid-19-vaccine/
yes, employers can require that employees be vaccinated once they are widely available. However, there are two main exceptions relating to disabilities and religious objections

Yes, so long as they can be held liable for any down the road side effects from the vaccine.

Which should shut that down in short order.
 
How is it different from requiring the employees to take a flu shot?

A former coworker successfully sued the hospital over a reaction [that required hospitalization] to a flu shot. There are liability concerns—especially with novel vaccines, that will make the employer’s underwriters nervous if they mandate it.
 
Well, they can’t spread it to vaccinated people. People who don’t get vaccinated assume the risk of employment and working with other unvaccinated people.

This is being made harder than it ought to be lol.

Exactly! It's their choice to risk getting sick. LOL.
 
Exactly! It's their choice to risk getting sick. LOL.

It’s the American way lol!

If the vaccines are all that, the pool of susceptibility will shrink dramatically. May already be happening. So if the unvaccinated want to pass it around back and forth—that still gets us to herd immunity, since they will be immune, post-infection.

When two or three of us are allowed to gather on Independence Day [let that irony sink in] we should all drink a toast to Operation Warp Speed because it almost certainly saved us some months of Covid dystopia.
 
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