would prevent employers from requiring employees be immunized against COVID-19 and would shield businesses from lawsuits in the event an employee becomes infectious.ban state health officials
In Missouri, a proposed bill would require immunizations only for public school children and would make exemptions easier.Employment concerns “Another sticky issue for employers is how to handle employees who choose to remain unvaccinated," said Melissa Jezior, president and CEO of Eagle Hill Consulting, which commissioned the survey."Should they be permitted to interact in-person with colleagues and customers or be given special allowances to work from home?”One-third of workers said nonvaccinated employees shouldn’t be allowed to work in-person with co-workers.
Prior to the coronavirus, few businesses outside of hospitals and health care settings required workers to be immunized. Even now only a handful of employers, mostly nursing homes, have required COVID-19 vaccination.been filed so far, said Sam Halabi, a professor of law at the University of Missouri and a scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.
It should be up to businesses to put up signs, “No proof of vaccination, no entry.” After all, “No Shoes, No Shirt” signs have been up for decades.