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Can Employers Require Workers To Take The COVID-19 Vaccine? 6 Questions Answered - Blavity

Ana Santos Rutschman , Saint Louis University ____ Editor’s note: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency in charge of enforcing laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace, on Dec. 16 said that employers can require employees to get vaccinated before entering the workplace. Now that two COVID-19 vaccines have received emergency use authorization in the U.S., some people are concerned they could be fired if they don’t want to take the vaccine. We asked legal scholar Ana Santos Rutschman , who teaches a course on vaccine law at Saint Louis University, to explain the decision and the rights employees and employers have.

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