More unvaccinated workers will be fired this year for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine, and they don’t have much legal recourse to fight back.
Citigroup Inc. said it would begin terminating workers at the end of the month for failing to comply with its inoculation mandate, joining the ranks of companies like Alphabet’s Google, Inc. and others that said they’d move to dismiss vaccine holdouts.
Employers have leeway, generally, to issue such mandates, so long as they account for religious and disability accommodations. Thus far, private companies have largely been successful in defending such policies in court.
These mandates can be imposed by companies regardless of the outcome of pending legal battles over the federal government’s attempts to require vaccination for large swaths of the U.S. workforce. The Biden administration has been defending a suite of rules mandating the vaccine for federal-contractor and health-care workers, and requiring large employers to require the shot or regular Covid-19 testing.
About 36% of workers say their employers are mandating the vaccine, according to the most recent Gallup poll from mid-December. Gallup estimates that 25% of U.S. workers are unvaccinated against Covid-19, and roughly 5% of those say they plan to get vaccinated.
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