The EEOC says employers can require employees get a COVID-19 vaccine or ban them from the office.
One lawyer predicts that most employers will strongly suggest, not require, vaccination.
There are still unanswered questions about what else employers can require of workers when it comes to workplace safety.
Employers can legally require employees get a COVID-19 vaccine or ban them from the office, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said in a recent guidance.
As the first doses of coronavirus vaccines are given to healthcare workers and other high risk groups, many employees around the country officially have an answer to the question: Can my boss legally require that I get the COVID-19 vaccine?
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December 18, 2020
By Mike Sokol and Paul Harvey
Each of us has (or, at least, should have) some sort of holiday tradition. Of course, many of these holiday traditions will be built around your own upbringing and culture. But for every culture that I’ve ever interacted with there seems to be a common thread.
The winter months seem to be the best time to reflect on our ancestors and the various faiths we were brought up in. I think everyone can agree that memories of our parents, their own parents, and their parents’ parents are important to us since they help define where we came from and who we are.
Can bosses make a coronavirus vaccination mandatory at the workplace?
Workers likely first want to know what exactly their employers can require of them. In short, yes, employers can make vaccines mandatory, Jimmy Robinson, managing shareholder at the L&E firm Ogletree Deakins s Richmond office, told Business Insider. He also mentioned that there would need to be religious and medical accommodations, with specific requirements varying by state and locale.
Karla Grossenbacher, chair of Seyfarth Shaw s L&E practice in Washington, DC, said that employers would have to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA says that employers can require medical exams and vaccinations of employees under certain, specific conditions, like for healthcare workers, or if it poses a direct threat to the person if they are exempted, Grossenbacher said.
More than 300k Americans dead from COVID-19: Death toll surpasses grim milestone just hours after NY ICU nurse becomes first in US to receive the vaccine
New York ICU nurse Sandra Lindsay was the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the US this morning
The first of the vaccinations were administered just hours before the COVID-19 death toll surpassed the grim 300,000 milestone
Seven-day rolling average for deaths is now just over 2,400 per day and average daily cases are at 213,000. Hospitalizations climbed to a record 109,331 yesterday
President Trump tweeted: First Vaccine Administered. Congratulations USA! Congratulations WORLD!
Vaccinations continued to roll out across the country throughout the morning with relieved healthcare workers from Ohio to Louisiana rolling up their sleeves to get the shot