Vaccine Mandates at Work Set for Uptick after Full FDA Approval
More employers will likely require their workers to be inoculated against Covid-19 once federal regulators upgrade the vaccines from their current approval as emergency products, according to employment lawyers who counsel companies.
Pfizer Inc. and its partner BioNTech SE on Friday asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for full approval of their vaccine, which was the first to receive emergency authorization. Moderna Inc., which got emergency approval shortly after Pfizer, could soon follow suit. Johnson & Johnson is further behind.
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Another issue is the potential for state laws that interfere or prohibit workplace vaccine mandates, attorneys said. Montana lawmakers are pushing legislation that would block employers from firing workers who reject mandates, and bills are pending in Florida and Iowa.
“Larger employers operating in multiple states have to worry about varying state laws that are each individually different,” said Susan Bickley, a lawyer at Blank Rome LLP. “And a lot of these companies are already down the road in planning, anyway.”
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“Vaccine Mandates at Work Set for Uptick after Full FDA Approval,” by Robert Iafolla was published in Bloomberg Law on May 10, 2021.