The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released updated guidelines clarifying that employers can require the vaccination when it becomes widely available in most cases, reports FOX News.
No surprise here, authoritarians of the same criminal gang will back each other up.
Here's the bizarre logic:
The EEOC, which enforces employment laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act, said Wednesday that a vaccination does not constitute a "medical examination," which employers are barred from forcing.
Because of this, employers can require workers to get the vaccine.
Fortunately, the EEOC says there are exemptions such as a worker who has a religious belief that prevents them from getting a vaccine.
And there is a nice bureaucratic complication the EEOC threw in:
Employers also must be careful about the way they administer vaccines, because "pre-screening vaccination questions may implicate the ADA’s provision on disability-related inquiries, which are inquiries likely to elicit information about a disability."
So it appears it is back to, "I have a medical exemption" and you don't have to tell your employer anything else.
Anyway, praise the anti-vaccine god!
-RW
I'm not sure that it's "authoritarian" for an employer to prescribe conditions of employment and entry onto its premises for its employees. Notwithstanding that this has the force of the state behind it, it seems to be an exercise of private-property rights to me.
ReplyDeleteNow, putting my libertarian "hat" aside, I would certainly criticize this choice by any employer, and hopefully those employers who don't lay down this condition will be able to attract the best employees away from those who do.
In a free market system this heavy handed vaccine propaganda and liability protection for vaccine manufacturers would not exist. Nor would the government have created an economic system of having a few major corporations at most dominate market sectors.
DeleteUnder a complete free market system employers who required vaccination may find themselves having an issue finding employees. That is if questionable vaccines would even be made or widely distributed in the first place.
It's a problem at every level because of the state. Fewer choices for employees, protection for the risks of vaccines, etc and so on.
If you are already employed and your employer enforces a vaccine policy, I believe they would put themselves at risk for at least workers comp claims, if even at minimum there were any loss days of work.
ReplyDeleteCould get a lot more expensive if the employee has an adverse reaction or even death. Will WC Insurance companies pony up for these types of work place injuries?
If you are already employed and your employer enforces a vaccine policy, I believe they would put themselves at risk for at least workers comp claims, if even at minimum there were any loss days of work.
ReplyDeleteCould get a lot more expensive if the employee has an adverse reaction or even death. Will WC Insurance companies pony up for these types of work place injuries?