I live in Florida. You are not in the right. You can choose masking over testing, testing over vaccine. But your employer must pay for and provide the masks and tests. Florida is at-will employment, so you can be fired for not wearing a mask.
Yeah. It does mean what I think it means. The law doesn't protect you in this case. It says that vaccines can't be the only option. That employers must also allow people to do regular testing or masking... The law does not say that an employee can choose to do none of those. Hence, you can be fired if your employer requires masks in lieu of the vaccine.
Okay. But since you're a business owner, you should be aware that the FL statute does allows businesses to mandate the vaccine but requires them to allow employees to opt out to instead use either testing, or wearing PPE (which the employer is responsible for providing). The law doesn't allow employees to disregard the mandate AND the exemptions. Hence, one can be fired for choosing to not wear a mask as required by the law and company policy.
I live in Florida. You are not in the right. You can choose masking over testing, testing over vaccine. But your employer must pay for and provide the masks and tests. Florida is at-will employment, so you can be fired for not wearing a mask.
Yeah. It does mean what I think it means. The law doesn't protect you in this case. It says that vaccines can't be the only option. That employers must also allow people to do regular testing or masking... The law does not say that an employee can choose to do none of those. Hence, you can be fired if your employer requires masks in lieu of the vaccine.
Okay. But since you're a business owner, you should be aware that the FL statute does allows businesses to mandate the vaccine but requires them to allow employees to opt out to instead use either testing, or wearing PPE (which the employer is responsible for providing). The law doesn't allow employees to disregard the mandate AND the exemptions. Hence, one can be fired for choosing to not wear a mask as required by the law and company policy.