Tuesday, May 11, 2021
With 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines available throughout the U.S., many employers are eager to normalize operations. For business planning purposes, surveying employees regarding their vaccination status may be a helpful tool in understanding if employee are, or plan to become, vaccinated.
If your business is considering surveying employees about their vaccination status, consider these four key legal areas
before you act:
1. Federal guidance from the EEOC
In December 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued guidance addressing vaccination status surveys from a federal law, and specifically an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), perspective. The EEOC stated that employers may generally inquire whether employees are vaccinated and ask for proof of vaccination without running afoul of the ADA. However, the EEOC cautioned that inquiring why an employee chooses not to get a vaccine could uncover underly
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Employers Can Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts
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During the first four months of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the United States, demand for the vaccine was far greater than supply. Increasingly, the opposite is happening: The vaccine doses available exceed the number of people stepping forward to receive them.
1 Some states and counties have even turned away unneeded shipments of vaccines.
A high rate of vaccination nationwide is crucial to controlling the pandemic’s threat to public health and ushering in a return to full economic activity. While the vaccination rate required to attain “herd immunity” population-level resistance to the virus is unknown and depends on a variety of factors, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he believes about 70 to 85 percent of people would need to acquire immunity through vaccination or previous infection with COVID-19.
Bloomberg Continues Progress Towards Net Zero Emissions by 2025, According to Annual Impact Report
Published 05-10-21
Summary
Bloomberg LP continues to make progress towards its commitment to net-zero emissions by 2025, according to the company’s
2020 Impact Report. The
Impact Report also outlines how Bloomberg is leading efforts to mobilize markets to fight climate change and bring transparency to climate risk data.
Report Highlights
Ambitious Emissions Reduction Targets Officially Validated by the Science Based Targets Initiative
Bloomberg Leading Efforts to Mobilize the Markets to Fight Climate Change and Bring Transparency to Climate Risk Data
Bloomberg LP continues to make progress towards its commitment to net-zero emissions by 2025, according to the company’s
Mon, 05/10/2021
LAWRENCE In 2018, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was arrested and charged with multiple criminal sexual acts. Weinstein’s conduct brought further attention to the viral #MeToo movement and also made those in positions of power rethink how employees should be treated.
But beyond the moral and legal fallout from such behavior, there’s an economic one.
“Beside the emotional and psychological toll on its victims, sexual harassment is also bad for business,” said Gjergji Cici, the Capitol Federal Professor of Finance at the University of Kansas.
His new article “#MeToo Meets the Mutual Fund Industry: Productivity Effects of Sexual Harassment” shows that removing or diminishing the threat of sexual harassment from the workplace improves productivity. Specifically, using the male-dominated mutual fund industry as a testing ground, it reveals productivity of female mutual fund managers significantly increased after the Weinstein scandal and the rise of the #Me