Companies want employees to get the shots, but they're taking a 'more carrot than stick' approach, experts say.
, just 3 percent anticipated mandating vaccinations for workers returning to the office," Challenger said."Most companies want to know that their workers are vaccinated, but they’re taking a more carrot than stick approach, offering incentives like extra vacation days. Or they’re letting workers who have been vaccinated not wear masks in the office."That said, there is “plenty of precedent” for hospitals in particular to require that workers be vaccinated, Challenger said.
“So a reasonable accommodation here would be requiring workers who want to return to the office to get vaccinated and allowing those who don’t want to get vaccinated to work from home,” Cevallos said. “But hospital settings are different. You can’t telecommute to your nursing job at a hospital.” “The hospital’s employees are not participants in a human trial,” Hughes wrote. “Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them the Covid-19 virus. It is a choice made to keep staff, patients and their families safer.”
Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist and assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said requiring health care workers to get a Covid-19 vaccine is a no-brainer.
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