Posted on 05/29/2021 4:49:19 AM PDT by Starcitizen
Employers are allowed to require the COVID-19 vaccine, and can also legally provide incentives, including cash, to workers who get jabbed, according to updated guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Companies must still provide reasonable accommodation for employees who are exempt from mandatory immunization under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
The commission also stated that employer incentives must not be "coercive," but stopped short of providing examples of illegal offers.
Some experts say there's enough legal gray area that a flurry of lawsuits could arise as companies start to bring their workers back to the physical workplace as the COVID-19 pandemic eases in the U.S.
You let them fire you and then collect unemployment while searching for a new job.
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Under old unemployment rules in some states, a breech of company policy meant disqualification from unemployment.
If an employee who acts intentionally or recklessly against the employer’s interests, the employee will likely be ineligible for unemployment benefits.
Some states take a harder line, finding that employees who are fired for violating a workplace policy or rule won’t be eligible for unemployment benefits, at least for a period of time.
It’s all up to the particular state and if the employer fights it. The EEOC ruling merely eliminates an employee reason. (Non-vaxxers are not a protected class in and of itself)
Federal law prohibits requiring medicine available under EUA.
A company cannot require me to get a flu shot or any other shot. This is crap.
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But they can fire you/ not hire you if you refuse. And this ruling means you can’t get EEOC help.
Amazon is going to mandatory pre-hire vaccinations. Right now, giving a pre-hire bonus of $100, but later making it mandatory without such bonus (that’s how it usually works)
Quit. My life is not a disposable commodity.
Get fired by using the many means available like showing up late too much, using your cellphone etc.
There are a great many 60+ Americans still working in key infrastructure, production and maintenance positions. Tail-end Boomers.
They quietly work away, storehouses of skill and experience, keeping a great many things running smoothly, and silently tolerating wokeism at work.
Many can retire right now, but are working until they get the full SS benefit.
If that turns around, as a sea change, it will be felt widely. And painfully: OK, Xers and Millennials — it’s ALL YOURS. Good luck. And don’t ever call me, I am retired.
This is just an EEOC policy. I wonder if this will survive the courts?
No-brainer. I would quit
Long term disability stops at full retirement age...you then get ss.
The problem is that minorities are less likely to be vaxxed so you would be creating a type of Jim Crow
EEOC is wrong. An experimental vaccine cannot be mandated.
So will these companies be legally held accountable for any deaths or extreme adverse reactions?
Where in the Constitution does it describe the authority for an agency, like the EEOC, to make law?
quit
This will be legally challenged.
I’ve been picking their brains for the last decade, getting info that isn’t written down anywhere. I will have all the work I want until death. I do electrical distribution design. We won’t even be remotely close to upgrading everything until far after my death. That doesn’t even count all the new business work, and “green” BS, to be done...
P.S. Gen Xers, such as myself, did not start this woke BS.
Except this would be a policy placed into effect after the employee was hired. Big difference than one in effect at the time the employee was hired.
Retire.
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