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CLE Webinar Discusses the Vaccination Pros and Cons for Workplaces

A recent Association of Corporate Counsel CLE webinar run by members of the employment law firm Jackson Lewis provided an important look at what employers should be thinking about as vaccination efforts here in the US speed up. 

The presentation summed up the various state and federal plans, noting that there remains no federal laws requiring employees to be vaccinated and some states, such as New York have proposed multiple bills that would prohibit employers from requiring employees to be vaccinated, although they are not likely to pass. They also highlighted guidance from the EEOC regarding vaccines, suggestions that haven’t changed since December. 

The webinar then laid out four possible options for employers. They are: having no vaccination policy, a soft or strong encouragement policy, and a mandatory vaccination policy. The presentation then went into some detail about the pros and cons of any mandatory policy, which roughly 10% of employers nationwide have already enacted.

Positives include getting workers back to the office more quickly and providing customers with some level of assurance about their own safety. Negatives included the potential for employees to blame the company if they experience adverse reactions and the possibility of workplace friction due to political, religious and personal sentiments that clash with the policy and the potential for organized labor to use such policies as a rallying cry. 

Finally, with the increasing availability of vaccines, it may be that more employers opt for a mandatory policy, deciding that the pros outweigh any cons.


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Helping Parents During the Pandemic

September 23, 2020
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Parents’ predicaments has been a theme we’ve returned to again and again here at the Berke-Weiss Law Blog since the start of March, though our concern over working parents’, and especially mothers’, rights reaches back much longer than six months.

DOL Revises FFCRA after Southern District Invalidates Four Sections

September 18, 2020
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The Department of Labor revisions to FFCRA, which went into effect on September 16, 2020, have been widely anticipated and it is hoped that they will reduce some of the issues surrounding paid leave and employees qualification for taking protected leaves.

This Week in FFCRA Complaints: Dismissals While Seeking Paid Leave

September 11, 2020
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It appears employers continue to terminate workers who are supposed to be protected under the FFCRA. This week, we’ve highlighted several cases where employees were waiting for test results or already diagnosed with Covid-19 and subsequently fired when seeking paid leave.

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