Labor attorneys David James and Joe Schmitt help members make sense of OSHA’s intent to develop rules requiring employers with more than 100 employees to ensure their workforces are vaccinated or tested frequently for COVID.
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At Cleveland-Cliffs, an incentive program that gave employees the opportunity to pocket as much as $3,000 had generated a 60 percent vaccination rate as the deadline to participate approached last week.
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At Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., workers will receive $1,500 bonuses if at least 75 percent of the employees at their work sites receive the vaccine. For sites where at least 85 percent of coworkers receive the vaccine, the bonus increases to $3,000.
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Employers are becoming more assertive in their quest to get employees vaccinated, emboldened by guidance from the EEOC.
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The EEOC says employers can mandate vaccines. If an employer chooses to mandate, and an employee refuses a vaccination and does not indicate the refusal is based on a disability or religious conviction, then employers may prohibit returning the employee to on-site work and may consider termination.
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The guidelines also suggest employers consider protections and reasonable accommodations for workers at a higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19,
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More than a third of Americans say they will not get the COVID vaccine. That may create a legal showdown in the workplace.
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U.S. officials have developed a 100-percent effective vaccine against African swine fever, but it likely will not be available for commercial use for years.
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