This is rather a big switch. Not that long ago a majority of businesses were talking about implementing a vaccine mandate. Now, in mid-December, that’s changed
Survey finds 75% of employers won’t have vaccine ban if US mandate is struck down
More than two-thirds of U.S. employers recently surveyed have no plans to make vaccination a condition of work, if courts ultimately strike down the Biden administration’s mandate for large employers.
According to the survey of 1,000 randomly selected members of the Society for Human Resources Management, 75% said they’re not likely to implement either of the mandate’s central directives — full vaccination or weekly testing — should a permanent court ruling make the measure illegal.
“The majority of employers and HR professionals that we chatted with are really in wait-and-see-mode,” Annemarie Schaefer, SHRM’s head of research, told Yahoo Finance. “So they don’t even know what to expect.”
Fifty-one percent of employers with 100 or more employees who responded to the survey indicated they will hold off on vaccination policy decisions until the legal challenges are settled. (Fifty-three percent of the 1,000 respondents employed more than 100 workers.)
There was a lot of support for this early on from businesses, that seems to have cooled off.
According to SHRM, employers subject to the mandate cited numerous challenges to implementing it. Seventy-three percent said the legal challenges made implementation difficult, while 65% said the rule poses challenges for managing employee morale. Fifty-nine percent cited record keeping requirements as sticking points, while 56% cited employee retention concerns.
And, perhaps, once Brandon’s un-Constitutional mandates are shot down, there might be more companies that do implement their own versions, be it requiring vaccination, masking and testing for the un-vaxxed (you’d think they might have done this long ago if it was Important), or both. I suspect most will look and say “we’ve barely had any issues in almost two years, there’s no need to complicate things.” In a business with around 100 employees in the building I’ve only seen the COVID notice perhaps 8-10 times since this began, and none have gotten seriously ill. A couple have been due to being around a family member who had it, so, they sat out and got tested.
Without Brandon’s mandates most will just work to get back to normal while Brandon tries to extend things out.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court declined to take up the health care mandate for NY State, which has no religious exemptions. They did not say why, but, really, this is the right decision. It’s a state thing, not a federal thing.
Read: Survey Finds Most Employers Won’t Have Vaccine Mandate If Biden’s Is Shot Down In Court »
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