sucks to be you...
Posted on 04/01/2021 12:07:16 PM PDT by ready2brd
To All Office Employees: Effective Tuesday, April 20, the Company’s office locations will return to full capacity operations, effectively ending remote work in connection with the Pandemic.
An e-mail was sent to you and all employees on March 17 and a subsequent e-mail reminder on Monday, March 22, regarding the Company’s requirement that all employees receive a COVID vaccination. As a reminder, we stated that all employees must be vaccinated as an ongoing condition of employment. So, you must be vaccinated as soon as possible. As a further reminder, please communicate your progress toward being vaccinated to in Human Resources.
The Company remains concerned about the health and well-being of our team and will continue to support and enforce existing COVID-19 safety protocols and procedures to provide a safe workplace. This includes, but is not limited to, continuing to wear face covers, practicing social distancing and washing your hands frequently. Completion of your vaccine does not exempt you from 100% compliance with these protocols. Note that we will also continue to provide hand sanitizer in the offices.
If you have questions regarding this process, please reach out to your supervisor, in Human Resources.
Thank you,
This will become universal.
There is no law against this requirement.
All hospital employees, and school teachers already tried. Vaccinations can be required as a condition of employment.
So the courts say.
The condition is that it has to be reasonably required.
There’s more than one company out there who wants this to go to court ASAP.
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Oh, are you woke?
This is cut and pasted from a company email from my HR. I am not providing my companies name for privacy issues. If you are truly surprised that this is coming out now, you haven’t been paying attention.
Why not? More companies are not hiring “tobacco users”.
It’s their policy. They don’t want lawyers circling them.
I work for a state agency that oversees our insurance plan. HIPAA applies to me as much as it applies to a healthcare provider. HIPAA also applies to the insurance company.
I don’t know all the ins and outs of HIPAA with the current public health issue; I just know it’s different when it involves public health issues. Here’s an example of how PHI can be released without your consent:
Patient Y went to the Emergency Department at Local Hospital due to a severe laceration to the leg. While in the waiting area, Patient Y sits next to Patient Z. It is later confirmed that Patient Z has an airborne, communicable virus. Patient Y and other patients in the waiting area were potentially exposed.
Local law permits providers to notify individuals that may have been exposed to a communicable disease. Local Hospital may use PHI and certified health IT to identify patients who were in the waiting area and potentially exposed to the virus. Local Hospital may send notices to the exposed patients about their exposure based on 45 CFR 164.512(b)(1)(iv). Local Hospital must only use and disclose the minimum necessary PHI for the purpose of the notification of exposure to the communicable disease.
https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/12072016_hipaa_and_public_health_fact_sheet.pdf
Ditto that
An employee in such a situation could object and refuse the vaccine on any number of grounds and not get fired. However, the employer make take other measures to make the work environment less than comfortable.
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I hope companies are stupid enough to try and mandate an experimental vaccine. I’d like to see a bunch of employees get rich suing the asses off these control freaks.
OK, fair enough.
I’m not saying I am surprised.
But there have been so many useless vanities about COVID and considering it’s April Fool’s day, I’m just a bit skeptical.
How is this legal?
From Dr. Amanda Cohn. Chief Medical Officer of the National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC in Atlanta:
"Organizations, such as hospitals, with licensed products do have capability of asking their workers to get the vaccine. But in the setting of an EUA, patients and individuals will have the right to refuse the vaccine."
sucks to be you...
It CAN NOT be mandated under the Emergency Use Authorization. Tee up the lawsuit and shoot for retirement.
Masks are the same thing! They have an EUA from April 24 of last year.
Axenolith wrote:
“Masks are the same thing! They have an EUA from April 24 of last year.”
The HR manager at my company put in writing late last year “if you don’t want to wear a mask, then maybe you don’t want to work here”.
Since last July they made it part of the standard PPE (anti-static smock, safety glasses) that is worn in the factory; non-compliance with PPE is grounds for disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.
Needless to say, I retired the end of January.
I had it planned since 2016, so only put up with masks from July of last year, and worked from home half days and went in the factory after lunch.
The company is a major defense contractor.
Meh...I make a lot of money. Manage about 100 people. I am taking the shots, and recommending them to everyone, just spreading awareness
Thanks for that.
I wonder if a refusal is without consequences...and I wonder what other “organizations” this applies to
I’m not “woke,” a “snowflake,” or a “SJW.” I just see the laws being ignored. People think the Constitution is going to save them, or Judges, or the Supreme Court. They are not going to save anyone. That is what I mean by waking up.
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