The firm Littler Mendelson released a survey that found 9 percent of employers are already issuing vaccine mandates for at least some of their workers.
For the past eight months, coronavirus shots were dispensed in the U.S. under emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. Some workers and unions objected to getting the vaccine—and some employers were reluctant to require it—because it had yet to receive"The FDA decision takes that off the table," said Devjani Mishra, a New York-based attorney with Littler Mendelson.
Drugstore chain CVS said employees who have contact with customers will have to be inoculated. Oil giant Chevron Corp. said it will require some of its workers—such as those who travel internationally, live abroad or work on its offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico—to get their COVID-19 shots.