Another attempt to get ride of private employment. The v”vaccine” manufacturers are immune from lawsuits, but the employers who mandate vaccines are not.
Not what I expected.
Am I reading this that if you have an adverse reaction and it’s recorded, it could be used in a workers compensation claim?
WOW!!@ The Drug Companies receive Blanket Immunity and the Employers acting on Guidance and Dictates by the State are held LIABLE! Un frikkin believable!
Can you sue the company?
OSHA shouldn’t exist. Thank Nixon.
I take this to mean that an employer can be held liable for an adverse reaction -IF- the employer REQUIRES the vaccine as a condition of employment.
So if you get the vaccine and die - same as dying while on the job.
It would also be interesting to know .... if an employee requests an ADA reasonable accomodation to NOT get the vaccine. Say the emplyee is known to be alergy senstive.
What would happen in this case. I would also imagine that any adverse reaction would be also liable???
If you're an employer and you've managed to keep your business afloat for the last year by having your staff work at home, you'd be a damned fool to ever let them come back to the workplace.
In addition to all the cost savings, just think of all the bullsh!t you don't have to worry about anymore if your employees never enter your place of work. No more OSHA claims, no more sexual harassment lawsuits, no more employees leaving early to pick up a sick kid at school, a drastic reduction of sick days, etc.
Workers Comp premiums are going to skyrocket, perhaps to make up for fewer employees? Who are the largest workers comp insurance provider? Berkshire Hathaway? Another hidden tax for the small businesses!
I am very much in agreement that companies should be liable. Why would companies mandate a vaccine (experimental or not) when there is a significant population that has moral and religious objections? That said, vaccine companies should be liable as well! Reagan was wrong on this
Nothing should surprise anyone. The Pharma’s are immune from litigation but others are not especially if it is mandated by an employer.
The bottom line is something may be legal but that does not make it moral.
Here a part of a reply to upper management at another company when it was being debated to make the Vexccines mandatory.
“There is a big difference between something being legal and something being moral. You claim (company name) has a right to force vaccination and employees have no legal recourse if that decision is made.
Are you going to pay the medical bills of an employee harmed by the vaccine or care for the family if employee is harmed/killed? What will you do when a person permanently harmed by your forced/coerced vaccination decrees or the friends and family of someone harmed or killed by those decisions decide to take revenge against the company and its employees because they feel they have no other recourse for ‘legal’ justice?
I’d worry specifically about actions against members of the executive management, trustees, board of directors and as well as their family members that made those decisions to put the lives and health of others at risk for profits and somehow believed they could remain untouchable for those decisions.
I think it would be wiser to simply sit this one out. I see no reason to get involved with such a practice as we have been extraordinarily good/lucky at stopping the spread of covid amongst employees. Almost never does an employee test positive during quarantine even if true exposure has occurred!
If there is any attempted coercion let it be the government that is seen at fault to bear the full wrath of the ire.”
H/T to Market Ticker.org
I didn’t think any employer could REQUIRE that a worker submit to experimental medical procedures.
Actually consistent with other OSHA regs.
I must say, I am a bit impressed. Mandating a medical treatment that may cause harm as a condition of employment has been in the past treated as workman’s comp.
Case in point. I worked at a plant that used lead. The workers were tested regularly, and were offered a chelating drug if levels were high. However, that drug had some risks, and if the company REQUIRED it, the reactions would be covered under workman’s comp.
In other words, if you require it, you are responsible for it.
Yup. Sounds about right to me. Vaccine required to work is an employer enforced condition. Therefore recordable.
It was and is also recordable if an employee gets Covid-19.
Under OSHA’s recordkeeping requirements, COVID-19 is a recordable illness, and thus employers are responsible for recording cases of COVID-19, if: The case is a confirmed case of COVID-19, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC);[2]May 19, 2020
https://www.osha.gov/memos/2020-05-19/revised-enforcement-guidance-recording-cases-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19#:~:text=Under%20OSHA‘s%20recordkeeping%20requirements%2C%20COVID,Prevention%20(CDC)%3B%5B2%5D