Each year, employees are required to attest to the company’s Code of Ethics. This is something that most employees read through in its entirety maybe their first year and then blindly sign every year after.
This year, the company was very careful to slide in this very vague, but extremely over reaching sentence. Out of a 39 page document, there was that one sentence and it was inserted in a way that avoided key words people who are concerned would be searching for such as Covid or vaccine.
By attesting to this Code of Ethics, if they move in the direction (which I’m positive they will) of mandating vaccines and booster shots, any employee who attested to this would be stripped of their rights to refuse, since they already attested to adhering to “any additional requirements”.
Fairly ironic that they deceptively inserted this ethics violation into their Code of Ethics.
I hope you crossed out that part before you signed it. By crossing out and clearly noting the change before you sign, you are legally making your company a counter offer. They then have the responsibility to either accept or deny your counter offer.
It puts the ball back in their court.
It is an online attestation, that you just click to attest at the end of it. No room for comments or otherwise. We’ll see what HR ends up coming back with
Print a hard copy or request a hard copy and cross out that line, initial and date where you made the change. This is a counteroffer, good advice from Monomial above.