Employers Must Consider Wealth of Legal Issues Before Requiring COVID Vaccinations

As health care professionals begin to administer the COVID-19 vaccine, California employers may have to navigate myriad legal issues if they’re considering mandating or even suggesting that their employees get vaccinated, employment law and workers’ compensation experts said. And workers who report physical or psychological side effects related to being vaccinated may be able to file successful claims if their employer assisted or reimbursed employees’ efforts in getting vaccinated on their own, according to two attorneys from Thousand Oaks work comp defense firm Floyd, Sker...