Could your employer mandate a coronavirus vaccine? Many encouraging it for now
Adam Daigle
Could employees be mandated to get the vaccine? We re curious what s going to happen, said Elizabeth Henson, president of the Acadiana chapter of the Society for Human Resources Association. This looks like it will be the new conversation of 2021: whether or not employers have the right to mandate.
Health care workers at Ochsner Medical Center in Jefferson Parish were the first in the state to receive the 79,000 vaccines on Monday, and other front line workers will be the first to get vaccines in the state.
Some 79,000 doses will be distributed in Louisiana as part of an evolving and complicated process. Federal officials are recommending vaccines be distributed to health care workers and people in long-term care facilities.
BY MATTHEW PERRONE, MIKE STOBBE AND MORRY GASH | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some 79,000 doses will be distributed in Louisiana as part of an evolving and complicated process. Federal officials are recommending vaccines be distributed to health care workers and people in long-term care facilities.
Once the availability increases, federal officials say, it will be more widely distributed.
How it is distributed and the legal hurdles, Henson said, must be worked out.
According to the Society of Human Resources Management, employers can mandate a vaccine for its employees based on industry and business necessity. The mandate is legal if the failure to vaccinate is a direct threat to others in the workplace.