Re:Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines
by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:48PM
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Relevant vaccination as a condition of work is not a new thing; what is different with the Google policy is:
(1) It is not clearly a condition of employment, as remote work remains available, generally til mod October and individually beyond that.
(2) The work condition to which it is relevant is “in office work” because of the still-ongoing pandemic, which has not historically been a work condition requiring vaccination.
(3) The vaccines involved are under Emergency Use Authorizations, not generally approved.
To the extent that #2 and #3 might otherwise make the policy questionable, I think as long as #1 is still the case there's not much real ground for that.
(1) It is not clearly a condition of employment, as remote work remains available, generally til mod October and individually beyond that.
(2) The work condition to which it is relevant is “in office work” because of the still-ongoing pandemic, which has not historically been a work condition requiring vaccination.
(3) The vaccines involved are under Emergency Use Authorizations, not generally approved.
To the extent that #2 and #3 might otherwise make the policy questionable, I think as long as #1 is still the case there's not much real ground for that.