Employers Can Require Vaccinations Under Biden Rule

NewsMax ^ | 05/29/2021 | Solange Reyner

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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.

[Uncle Miltie]

I’m close enough to retirement.

I make ‘em over 10 mil a year. If they want to fire me over the vax, have a nice friggin day.

[CPT Clay]

Against Nurenberg?

[Bulwyf]

I don’t make that much, as I’m only a one man show and I’m nowhere near retirement, but I will not bend.

[Uncle Miltie]

The question is:

When your employer demands you be a guinea pig in a third party’s science experiment, will you go along because you need that particular job so badly?

Is there no other equivalent employer who will hire you without being forced into medical decisions with which you disagree?

We are right on the doorstep of totalitarianism.

Everyone plays their hand.

I am in a position to say, “F u and the horse you rode in on!”

[Starcitizen]

Congress cannot shield employers from liability in COVID cases. Lawsuits over injuries and torts are adjudicated in state courts in almost every circumstance. Each state would have to pass its own variation of an employer immunity law, and we know that simply ain’t going to happen
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So why was McConnell and the Senate Republicans so eager to pass this liability protection from COVID cases for businesses last year as part of the stimulus packages last year? They weren’t just talking out of their collective asses. Sure adjudicated in state courts, but must defer to federal law. Unless you personally know something that these mainly lawyers in Congress don’t know.

[Truthoverpower]

The vaccine industry is pure evil

The demoncats love to push their poison ☠️

[Myrddin]

Employees who are required to get a vaxx by an employer and suffer and adverse reaction can pursue legal recourse for a workplace injury under OSHA rules. Biden is quick to flap his gums, but usually ignorant of the law.

[American in Israel]

That will really help with the problem of finding people to hire.

Ah... The older of unintended consequences raises its ugly head again. The bane of Socialism.

[Clemenza]

Well, go find another employer then if you don’t like such policies.

[momincombatboots]

Or, the dems are truly the minority, which is why they require tanks and walls.

[ronnie raygun]

So you lose your job if your are not forcibly vaccinated

[DoodleDawg]

You must be ignorant to the fact that millions of us believe and utilize modern medicine, but have religious objections to aborted fetal cell derived vaccines and experimental vaccines.

And you must be ignorant of the applical anti-discrimination laws.

[Alberta's Child]

So why was McConnell and the Senate Republicans so eager to pass this liability protection from COVID cases for businesses last year as part of the stimulus packages last year? They weren’t just talking out of their collective asses. Sure adjudicated in state courts, but must defer to federal law. Unless you personally know something that these mainly lawyers in Congress don’t know.

They were proposing to use the same strategy that's ALWAYS used whenever the Federal government wants to impose its will on states in matters where the Federal government has no authority.

The item I highlighted in bold above should have been the biggest clue for you. Under the GOP plan, any state that wanted to receive Federal COVID money would have been required provide this liability protection under its own laws as a condition of getting the COVID money.

That was simply never going to happen under any circumstances no matter how hard the Chamber of Commerce GOP tried.

[Bulwyf]

I’ll say the same thing though I’m not in a position to do that.

If they really want to back me into a corner though and others, that would be unwise.

[T.B. Yoits]

Employers can demand just about anything. And there is not anything you can do about it except quit or get fired.

So...employers can demand you have a certain skin color, practice a certain religion, have a certain sexual orientation, etc.

A korporation doesn't have the right to force employees to take an experimental treatment as a condition of employment. Forcing experimental treatment on individuals was specifically addressed in the permissible experiments section of the Nuremberg Code in 1947. (http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/nuremberg/)

Whether korporations like it or not, there are rules. If they want to break them, so can anyone else. One could sell products using the korporation's copyright or trademark without their permission on tables right in front of their business. One could redirect web traffic away from their internet sites. One could park their vehicles blocking their driveways. If korporations don't like the rules, they can go somewhere else and not connect to our municipal utilities, roadways, and electrical grid, they could be thrown out of the same courts of laws they violate.

[sergeantdave]

“Employers can demand just about anything.”

And if an employer’s demand causes injury or death, damn right the employer can be sued. And I’m sure a creative prosecutor can charge the owner with criminal negligence.

[Starcitizen]

“Employers can demand just about anything.”

And if an employer’s demand causes injury or death, damn right the employer can be sued. And I’m sure a creative prosecutor can charge the owner with criminal negligence.

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Only if you can afford a lawyer to take your case. The poor (that’s who we are really referring to) can’t get a lawyer in most cases. it’s lower-paid service industry jobs mostly demanding this - can’t afford this. For example, Amazon, Kroger, Target and Walmart are all pushing this.