CDC says masks work as risk reduction, CDC says vax is risk reduction, CDC says distancing is risk reduction, and won't ever say prevention for any of them. A reasonble accomodation is mask or distancing if not vaxxed. Right now, good luck getting CDC to say masks don't work, they still want vaxxed to wear masks
A reasonble accomodation is mask or distancing if not vaxxed.
Exactly my point. A business can easily argue that reducing the capacity of their facilities to accommodate employees who choose not to be vaccinated is not a reasonable accommodation. If I can have 20 vaccinated people working in a building and only 10 unvaccinated, there's no court in the US that's going to rule that as a reasonable accommodation.
Don't mistake my argument as supporting employers. I'm just telling you how it works.
That's got to be tried in a court. For hiring you might argue that, and those that say they'll wear a mask have a good alternative 'risk reduction' argument for being hired also given that vaxxed are still getting the China virus . Once the CDC says "masks don't work", then your scenario can apply as a requirement for new hires since there'd not be an alternative . For those that are already employed ADA protects them with reasonable accommodation.
My hope is that by September/October there will be a lot more info on vax not working, failing booster shot propaganda, and evidence of states that don't wear masks having no effect on numbers of illnesses
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