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My wife received an "official email" from her employer stating that vaccinated employees no longer have to do all the Covid theatre with the masks, temp checks, questionnaires, etc. Non-vaccinated employees, such as my wife, however, are still treated as "unclean ones", and must continue to do all of the above. Which has the result of her being singled out by her coworkers as an "anti-vaxxer", etc. It's also, I'm quite sure, a precursor into their next step; making the jab mandatory for employment.
I'm not trying to get multiple posts about how she needs to "stop being a cuck" and throw away her mask, etc; I'm wanting to know just how actually legal/illegal it is for an employer to incentivize getting a non-FDA medical treatment like this, and what, if anything, she can do, legally speaking, to fight back without losing her job in the process.

Edit for clarification, because some of these answers are for a slightly different question: She is technically not being required to get the jab (yet); she's just being forced to wear an article of clothing, etc, that other employees are not, based solely on her personal health decisions. Someone below even said their employer offered $1K to incentivize employees to get [this still very much non-FDA approved, "emergency use only" treatment]. Wow, that's a bad thing to be in any way legal.

My wife received an "official email" from her employer stating that vaccinated employees no longer have to do all the Covid theatre with the masks, temp checks, questionnaires, etc. Non-vaccinated employees, such as my wife, however, are still treated as "unclean ones", and must continue to do all of the above. Which has the result of her being singled out by her coworkers as an "anti-vaxxer", etc. It's also, I'm quite sure, a precursor into their next step; making the jab mandatory for employment. I'm not trying to get multiple posts about how she needs to "stop being a cuck" and throw away her mask, etc; I'm wanting to know just how *actually* legal/illegal it is for an employer to incentivize getting a non-FDA medical treatment like this, and what, if anything, she can do, legally speaking, to fight back without losing her job in the process. Edit for clarification, because some of these answers are for a slightly different question: She is technically not being *required* to get the jab (yet); she's just being forced to wear an article of clothing, etc, that other employees are not, based solely on her personal health decisions. Someone below even said *their* employer offered $1K to incentivize employees to get [this still very much non-FDA approved, "emergency use only" treatment]. Wow, that's a bad thing to be in any way legal.

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[–] • 3 pts

Tell your wife to wear the mask, and constantly complain to her coworkers how lucky they are for being able to receive the vaccine and to thank them for accepting the vaccinate people like you're wife who have bad, potentially lethal reactions to the vaccines and therefore can't safely take them.

Change the narrative in their heads from, "She's a piece of shit for not doing something so simple." To, "We are heroes for protecting the vulnerable, like her, and it feels good to be appreciated."

In legal terms, your wife is fine. In practical terms...well, she'd never be explicitly fired for not get the shot. They'd wait until the third time she was late to work in a year and fire her for tardiness or something.

So your best bet is not standing on legality or logic and reasoning - if these people were logical or reasonable, Covid wouldn't be a thing. You need to be subtle and manipulate them.

[–] • 2 pts

This is definitely the best advice. These people use social manipulation techniques, so you need to play their game and fight back the same way. They typically skew towards the care/harm and fairness moral foundations (en.wikipedia.org), so appealing to those primarily is probably the way to go.

[–] • 1 pt

As depressing and enraging as it may be, this may be the best path for right now. She's literally getting pushed to tears in frustration over it. "Office politics" were already a bad enough thing in her department (but she stays because of some admittedly nice benefits and pay) before all this. Now it feels like our private business is of everyone else's concern.

[–] • 0 pt

I agree. Show up early, and never be late. If overtime is optional don't opt out.