It’s True: Workers Can Be Fired for Refusing to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine

While most Ohioans will still have to wait months to get a coronavirus vaccine, what if you don’t want one? Could you even be fired from your job if you refuse?

Legal experts say yes.

“Employers can require their at-will employees to get a vaccine. That’s already law,” said Rema Ina, employment attorney at Cleveland’s Gallagher Sharp law firm, adding that many hospitals already require health care workers to get flu vaccinations as a condition of employment.

But there are exceptions. People with medical conditions are protected by the Americans with Disability Act. . .

An employee may also be exempt from a vaccine requirement under the religious accommodation provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, if a worker has “sincerely held” religious beliefs against being immunized. (Read more from “It’s True: Workers Can Be Fired for Refusing to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine” HERE)

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