The U.S. says employers can require workers to get the Covid-19 vaccine.
A Pittsburgh Veterans Authority Medical Center worker received a Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday. Employers are uniquely positioned to require large numbers of Americans who otherwise would not receive a vaccination to do so.Credit.Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
By Vimal Patel
Dec. 18, 2020
Employers can require workers to get a Covid-19 vaccine and bar them from the workplace if they refuse, the federal government said in guidelines issued this week.
Public health experts see employers as playing an important role in vaccinating enough people to reach herd immunity and get a handle on a pandemic that has killed more than 300,000 Americans. Widespread coronavirus vaccinations would keep people from dying, restart the economy and usher a return to some form of normalcy, experts say.
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Everything that General Mills does online is designed to drive purchases, says Jeff Austin, senior mar tech manager at the CPG giant, and that includes the more than 300 brand websites that General Mills maintains across 42 countries in 26 different languages.
Its consumer-facing sites fall into two main buckets.
Core brands, including Betty Crocker and Pillsbury, have sites that serve as publishing platforms for recipes, cooking tips and how-to content that General Mills updates on a regular basis. More than 150 million people hit its content sites every year.
“We’re driving impressions for our brands – and ultimately getting people to buy General Mills products – by meeting specific need states,” Austin said. “People come to us when they want to know what to cook for dinner, how to boil an egg or how to roll out a pie crust.”
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The EEOC’s latest FAQ-style guidance discusses a number of issues that employers need to consider assuming that they are requiring the vaccine. Some of the key issues that the EEOC opined on include:
Vaccine or pre-vaccine questions as a “medical examination” under the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”): The EEOC clarified that requiring a vaccine is not a “medical examination” as that term is used under the ADA, even if it is administered by the employer. However, the pre-screening questions that would likely be asked of an employee who was about to receive the vaccine would be considered disability-related inquiries that need to be job-related and consistent with business necessity. If the employer is either asking the questions of employees directly or contracting with a third-party to ask those questions and administer the vaccine, the employer must demonstrate that the questions are necessary
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On December 16, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) expanded on its
COVID-19 Q&A guidance to address the interplay of vaccines with employment discrimination laws. While the agency confirms that employers may require mandatory vaccination as a condition of employment for most employees without violating federal discrimination laws, there are medical inquiry, accommodation and discrimination concerns to consider in evaluating whether to adopt a workplace vaccination program.
The guidance starts with the pronouncement that “[t]he EEO laws do not interfere with or prevent employers from following CDC or other federal, state, and local public health authorities’ guidance and suggestions”. It then affirms that a COVID-19 vaccine is not a medical examination under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). However, any pre-screening vaccination questionnaire