FTA: The reason? In most states, if a person is fired with cause for violating company policy - such as mandatory vaccinations - they are not entitled to unemployment benefits and payments.
"Even something as simple as a dress code that says you have to wear a tie, and that's the company's policy, and you say, 'I don't believe in wearing a tie, so I'm not going to do it.' That's insubordination," says John T. Harrington, Principal at The Employment Law Group. "It's misconduct, and it would likely disqualify you from receiving unemployment benefits."
Harrington said there are only two exemptions to a vaccination requirement - medical or religious. In both cases, however, exemptions are determined on a case-by-case basis with employers. Just because one employee is granted a religious exemption, it doesn't mean that will extend to anyone else.
And if you take the jab and die your life insurance does not have to pay
When the policy violates federal and international law, you will receive UE benefits. They cannot withhold UE for policies that are in violation of human rights.
What a load of codswallop, comparing the wearing of a tie to taking an experimental drug.
yeah crazy. Ask the company if you can take the vaccine out of you when you off duty or when your contract is done.
This information is HIGHLY dependent upon the state in which one lives, and the different unemployment guidelines in that state. Keep in mind also that if a guideline or policy of an employer was not in place at the time the employee was hired, that figures greatly into whether unemployment benefits are received or not. It would be one thing if a policy was in effect when the person was hired, and they broke it. But the vast majority of people now dealing with this employer mandate were already on the payroll before this policy was created within any company.
Grandfathering, which is what you describe, doesn't always apply to new policies. However, It would be an interesting and possibly successful approach to use in fighting for unemployment benefits.
Maybe not always - that's true, but the article doesn't seem to mention it at all, and in some places it may be relevant, so, just wanted to throw that out there.
When I was "let go" some years ago I "borrowed" the company's customer database on a floppy disk on my last day. I mailshot all the customers local to me and told them that the repair department had moved. For the next ten years I made quadruple the money by working for myself.
Consider working for yourself if at all possible. You can keep your overheads low by working from home. In the UK, I was even able to claim a tax rebate by declaring part of my home as my "office". I could also claim for a percentage of the electricity and for stationary and equipment that I had to buy.
Obviously it depends on your location, your skills and your preferences.
I started by listing all income (wife's salary) and outgoing commitments that we couldn't avoid. I cancelled unnecessary subscriptions. When I broke it down I discovered that I personally needed to earn (say) $100 per day, 5 days a week, to survive. I did this easily and a lot more. I fact within 6 months I was earning $400 per day.
I worked from home for the final 21 years of my work life. Best 'job' I ever had. I also started with $100 a day, 5 days a week, as my necessary income and after a few years was making a lot more than that. One can get along on very little if one lives a minimalist life, as I do.
Are you a wizard?
It was completely coincidental that my employer was going through a reorganization at the time, and my position was reorganized out of existence. I am in the IT field and have been remote for a year, and they mentioned that they were beginning to open the office again (with no word of whether they'd require the jab, but I saw the writing on the wall at this woke company.)
I began a search but specified "remote only" positions. Within a month I had gone through three interviews, and accepted a position. (If you are an anon with a day job as a recruiter, I sneered at the overused phrase "remote until covid" on all the stupid listings that people sent me. WTF does "remote until covid" mean??) But that's neither here nor there.
There are plenty of jobs out there, and if you aren't constrained by needing to be onsite, you might get really lucky.
When I left the corporate world it was because I'd had to help orchestrate 6 downsizings in 7 years and all the fun had done out of that world. When it got to the 6th one, many really good people had already left, and I could tell the company wasn't going to last much longer (3 years later it was gone), so I put my own name on the list to be offloaded, took the severance package and never looked back. I had a plan for working from home, my plan was successful, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
They cannot mandate a unapproved vaccine it is illegal
But it seems the FDA is striving to give Pfizer a full approval by September 1.
Might be time to fight fire with some fire.