Employment is at will.
No one owes you a job. If you don’t want to be vaccinated against preventable disease then no employer has to keep you on the payroll.
Why should an employer be forced to keep employees that are going to be sick? It hurts production.
I hope the employees sue and overwhelm by resisting en masse. Your expressed sentiment is good if there is no essential monopoly. Then it amounts to coercion.
“Why should an employer be forced to keep employees that are going to be sick? It hurts production.”
Employees contract common colds, the flu, headaches, cancer, ulcers, brain fog, stomach viruses, heart attacks, and strokes. They break bones on the job and off. Many of the illnesses employees randomly contract may result in them being unable to function at their jobs for hours, days or weeks depending on the severity. Illnesses may have long term impacts on their mobility. Production will be hurt, whether or not they have the Covid vaccine. If production needs supersede employee health, and employment is at will, perhaps employers should fire an employee who’s husband has the flu or whose child has diarrhea. If lost time may result, best get rid of them when the employer hears of something that may cause an employee to miss time at work.
The key issue here is the Covid vaccines are experimental. They have not been through the testing required by law to ensure their safety for human consumption. If J&J comes up with a new drug for menstral cramps it recruits subjects for testing. You are claiming J&J should be able to ask an employer to provide subject for the test and that employer should be able to fire any woman who refuses to take the experimental drug.
If employers can require employees to take experimental drugs, or lose their jobs. What can’t they require? How about requiring employees to give money to the Democrat party, or lose their jobs? How about requiring employees to work in the hot sun without water? How about requiring employees to appear in the office on a day when the streets are slick with two inches of ice, there are car accidents throughout the community, and the governor has issued a “stay home” advisory?
Pregnant women get morning sickness. Thalidomide calms morning sickness in pregnant women and also causes birth defects. Many pregnant women are employed. I assume you would fire any pregnant employee who is affected on the job by morning sickness who refuses to take thalidomide. Your logic with respect to the Covid vaccine suggests so
Remember the death toll of people taking the vaccine is over 10,000. If I work for you and take the vaccine because you are threatening me with losing my job, if I have a reaction and die from the shot, I’m assuming you Mr. Employer will deny any responsibility. After all, its all about production.
a mfg employer here: you cannot be serious, I'm an employer, not their doctor - I will never hold continued employment over someones head to force them to make what should be a personal medical decision.
....If you don’t want to be vaccinated against preventable disease...
no need to read your post further....try and keep up with the news.
Why should an employer be forced to keep employees that are going to be sick? It hurts production.
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Isn’t pregnancy a disease?