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| As COVID-19 Vaccine Nears, Employers Consider Making It Mandatory |
| 2020-11-27 |
| [NPR] Just a few months into the coronavirus pandemic, Holly Smith had already made up her mind. She was not going to reopen her restaurant to diners until there was a vaccine. She just didn't think it was safe. When she shared the decision with her staff, they asked: Would the vaccine be mandatory? Yes, she said. It would be. "I'm not going to open until I can indeed be sure that everyone on my staff is vaccinated," says Smith, chef and owner of Cafe Juanita in Kirkland, Wash. "The immediate people on the team — you've got to take care of them. If you don't take care of them, they cannot help you take care of business." With promising news from three COVID-19 vaccine trials showing 90% to 95% efficacy, employers are now weighing whether they should simply encourage their employees to get vaccinated or make it mandatory. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Requiring the vaccine is all very well, but it may be a year or more before it is available to restaurant staff. The odds ae high that those employers that require vaccination as a condition of reopening will go broke before they have a chance to enforce it. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-11-27 17:24 |
| #2 Disgusting. I can see not using illegal drugs as a term of employment, but a mandatory vaccine? They can just phook off. (I hope I didn't lose too many social credits on that.) |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-11-27 14:03 |
| #1 What after that? Mandatory homosexual encounters to promote sensitivity? Mandatory microchip implantation? Mandatory brain surgery? Seems like the sky could be the limit, eh? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-11-27 09:13 |