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flu vaccine is necessary to keep the workplace safe from significant risks and/or to permit employees to be able to perform their jobs. For these reasons, in industries where employees serve and interact with populations who are more suscep- tible to contracting the flu (such as healthcare or early ed- ucation), employers are likely permitted to (or required to in some states) require flu vaccination. Employers outside of these industries, however, face the challenge to articu- late the basis (other than the general intention to keep the workplace safe) of the need for such a policy. Do Employers Have to Permit Exceptions to Mandatory Vaccination Policies? Even if a mandatory vaccination policy is permissible for an employer using the above criteria, employees may request (and must be permitted to request) reasonable ac- commodation from the mandatory flu shot requirements based on a disability under the ADA or applicable state laws. Similarly, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its applicable state equivalents, an employer must consider an employee’s accommodation request based
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on a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance (which, under relevant guidance, can be fairly broad and includes more than the traditional organized religions). Upon receiving an accommodation request to be re- lieved of a vaccination requirement due to disability or re- ligious-related reasons, an employer must engage in an in- teractive process with the employee to determine if it can provide the employee with a reasonable accommodation (barring an undue hardship on the employer). An exam- ple may be asking that specific employee to wear a mask, follow distancing rules, or take other specific precautions. As with all accommodation requests, employers need to make the determination on a case-by-case basis. A Safer Option? Interestingly, the federal agency that enforces federal anti-discrimination laws, the Equal Employment Oppor- tunity Commission’s (EEOC), does not explicitly prohibit mandatory vaccination policies, but instead recommends that employers should consider encouraging employees to get the flu vaccine. To that end, the CDC has provided
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