“Employers generally have wide scope” to make rules for the workplace, said Dorit Reiss, a law professor who specializes in vaccine policies at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. “It’s their business.”
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has allowed companies to mandate the flu and other vaccines, and has indicated they can require COVID-19 vaccines.
There are exceptions. For example, people can request exemptions for medical or religious reasons. Some states have proposed laws that restrict mandating the vaccines because of their “emergency use status, but that may become less of an issue since Pfizer has applied for full approval and others are likely to follow.
Can Your Boss Make You Get Vaccinated?
As an employee, have you wondered if it was legal for your boss to make you get a COVID-19 vaccination?
Where I work it was not mandatory for us employees to get vaccinated. Yes it was strongly encouraged but most of us love our jobs and respect our co-workers so no one had to ask us to get vaccinated. Everyone got vaccinated as soon as the were able to.
Well according to WOOD, yes your employer can make getting a vaccination mandatory but there are a few exceptions.
I guess the deal is, because of safety issues for employees, U.S. employers can require a vaccination but you most likely won t lose your job if you decided it is not for you. This is where is gets tricky legally because an employer could make you sign a waiver or even have you agree to do your job with certain restrictions so if you get the virus you won t expose your co-workers.
“Employers generally have wide scope” to make rules for the workplace, said Dorit Reiss, a law professor who specializes in vaccine policies at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. “It’s their business.”
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has allowed companies to mandate the flu and other vaccines, and has indicated they can require COVID-19 vaccines.
There are exceptions. For example, people can request exemptions for medical or religious reasons. Some states have proposed laws that restrict mandating the vaccines because of their “emergency use status, but that may become less of an issue since Pfizer has applied for full approval and others are likely to follow.
“Employers generally have wide scope” to make rules for the workplace, said Dorit Reiss, a law professor who specializes in vaccine policies at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. “It’s their business.”
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has allowed companies to mandate the flu and other vaccines, and has indicated they can require COVID-19 vaccines.
There are exceptions. For example, people can request exemptions for medical or religious reasons. Some states have proposed laws that restrict mandating the vaccines because of their “emergency use status, but that may become less of an issue since Pfizer has applied for full approval and others are likely to follow.