MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WPMI) — There are two new Alabama laws you need to know about as we head into 2022.
One law just recently went into effect about COVID-19 vaccine exemptions and the other goes into effect January 1 and it deals with employment contracts and non-disparagement agreements.
A new Alabama law that recently went into effect in early November requires employers to allow their employees to file for religious or medical exemption from COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
This particular law came up earlier this year when COVID-19 vaccine mandates swept the nation. The federal contractor vaccine mandate affected people here locally at companies like Austal and Airbus. Some decided to resign from their job over it.
“There were meetings after meetings about it and point blank I was told I would be fired if I didn’t get the vaccine,” former Austal employee Alexis Bell said.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined other states in lawsuits against federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates which are currently blocked by federal courts.
Shortly after this ruling, he cautioned employers about this new exemption law.
“There's nothing in Alabama law that would restrict a private employer from being able to make those decisions. But I would also caution to the extent that that is a decision that a business makes that they are also mindful of the recent enactment of the medical and the religious exemptions that were put into place when the Alabama legislature recently that...
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