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COVID-19 vaccines are giving many employers hope that their workplaces can slowly return to normal. To help speed that return, employers are considering requiring or encouraging workers to get vaccinated. That’s allowed within certain limits, but there are employee relations hurdles and legal challenges in mandating or incentivizing vaccines that employers need to be aware of.
Before employers jump to requiring employees to get vaccinated, they should understand all the possible effects of that decision – both operational and cultural. As an example, if an employer makes COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory and excludes people from the workplace who haven’t gotten immunized, there may not be enough employees to keep the business running. There are moral issues that might materialize. It’s possible that despite the toll that the pandemic has taken on all of us, some employees may be reluctant, or even hostile, to a requirement that they get vaccinated. This reluctance could create an employee engagement issue that some employers may not want to provoke.