Posted on 05/29/2021 5:54:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The federal government on Friday said employers can offer incentives to employees who receive COVID-19 vaccines without violating federal anti-discrimination laws, an announcement that comes as several states have launched programs to increase inoculation rates.
In an update of its COVID-19 guidance, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also said employers could require all workers physically entering a workplace to be vaccinated against the coronavirus but that federal law may require the employer to provide reasonable accommodations for employees who aren’t vaccinated because of a disability or religious belief.
Employers are allowed to offer incentives to employees who receive vaccinations through their employer or an affiliated agent so long as the incentive is ''not so substantial as to be coercive.''
''Because vaccinations require employees to answer pre-vaccination disability-related screening questions, a very large incentive could make employees feel pressured to disclose protected medical information,'' it said. ''However, this incentive limitation does not apply if an employer offers an incentive to employees to voluntarily provide documentation or other confirmation that they received a COVID-19 vaccination on their own from a third-party provider that is not their employer or an agent of their employer.''
The EEOC also said employers are required to keep their staff’s vaccination information confidential.
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Marc Freedman, vice president of employment policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told The Wall Street Journal that the guidance should help quell concerns about returning to the workplace.
''To the extent that employees are concerned that coming back to the workplace will put them at risk of getting COVID-19, anything that helps an employer get more employees vaccinated will help make the case that the workplace is safe,'' he said.
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Out of control government is out of control.
Yeah
Massive lawsuit
RE: Out of control government is out of control.
Unless one believes in a fraudulent 2020 election, the voters got what they wanted.
Remember this is coming to you from the very same folks that say “my body my choice” when murdering another persons body.
Same folks who say their medical choices are “personal and private medical decisions none of anyone elses business”.
So employers can require a vaccine. But can they require inoculation of something that isn’t a vaccine?
Can the federal government inject anyone with anything?
117 employees file lawsuit against Houston Methodist Hospital for mandating workers take Covid jab.
Heard somewhere that PDJT got more votes in 2020 than in 2016.
If that’s true, it must be one of the few (person the only) times when a sitting President improved his vote total and did not retain the Oval Office.
FACT: People who had it and recovered are better protected, and for longer, than the vax crowd. (Example: SARS-1 recovered ppl still protected 17 years later)
What about them?!?
And many scientists are now saying if you already had it, don’t take the vax, as it then more likely comes with its own problems from compounding the two.
Courts should kill this ASAP.
Imagine the precedent this would set.
We never heard about Walmart employees dropping dead last March through May before everyone was social distancing and mask wearing, while they fight over toilet paper. The work Place was never as dangerous as it was made out to be.
There have been multiple against businesses
I mean now we need one against fedgov because of Bidens rule
Not so much what they voted for, but what they allowed to take place.
” an update of its COVID-19 guidance”
Is a guidance now law?
Since those opposed to vaccinations are not a protected class then it stands to reason federal anti-discrimination laws would not apply.
Yes, this seems to set an interesting precedent... envision a future in which employers require workers to take cocaine injections to assist with their productivity. Why not?
Employers will have free reign to do what they want to their employees. What side of Marxism is Joltin Joe on, anyway?
In this case, yes.
I can’t wait until they try this at my workplace.
There are a lot of muslims there and not one of them will get the vaccine.
Not one.
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