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Can employers require workers to take the coronavirus vaccine?
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Throughout the coronaviruspandemic, some New Jerseyans have been able to work at home.
But as vaccination efforts begin in the state, officials say we’re probably only a few months away from widespread vaccine availability. That could be a game-changer for employees who have spent months away from the office.
It also raises a lot of questions.
Employers are required to keep their workplaces safe, but what happens if some workers don’t want to take a vaccine? Can your boss require it? What if you take the vaccine but your coworkers don’t? Do you have any rights?
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A former seasonal worker at a tech contractor supporting Medicare open enrollment has been sentenced to serve 42 months in prison after pleading guilty to a charge in connection with improperly accessing patient records, some of which were used to open fraudulent credit lines.
Court papers describe how the insider was able to access and copy thousands of individuals’ personal information.
In a statement, the Department of Justice said Colbi Trent Defiore, a Mississippi resident, was sentenced in a Louisiana federal court for accessing and obtaining without authorization the personal identifying information of 8,000 individuals through “bulk searches” he conducted of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthcare.gov database.