Originally Posted by
Soxfan1
For those that think it not being in your contract somehow prevents this from happening, should it actually happen, this has “added to a manual” written all over it.
Yes there is plenty of existing legal basis for employers to require vaccinations, you can google that to your heart's content, it's out there. Also plenty of discussion relevant to potential covid vaccine requirements.
As I said before, employers will prefer not to go there but they will if the landscape (safety or liability) obviously needs it.
Legislation is the wild card, that could go either way or anything in between... congress (or state assemblies) could legislate that organizations cannot be sued for requiring vaccinations, or to the other extreme, could legislate that they cannot require vaccines. Federal legislation would preempt state legislation (unless SCOTUS deemed it unconstitutional over-reach).
Politicians, like employers, will prefer not to go there either if they can avoid it. Depends on how things play out.
But most other countries (western socialist or totalitarian) have no qualms about mandating vaccination, so if you're hell-bent on not getting getting vaccinated and work for a major you're going to need to bid for CONUS and Latin America. If you're on reserve, you're probably SOL.