Did you get your COVID-19 vaccination shots?
According to a new survey of CEOs in the US, the vast majority of companies will ask their employees
91% of the 140 CEOs surveyed said their companies will ask workers to notify them once workers have been vaccinated survey from KPMG, the global tax, consulting and auditing company.
That question will be part of the new normal as the number of COVID-19 cases falls and vaccination rates continue to rise in the US, according to Tuesday’s poll. All CEOs surveyed by KPMG chief executives have annual sales of at least $ 500 million.
Just over half of CEOs (52%) said they expect business to return to normal in the fall or winter of 2021. Another 29% said it will be until some point in the next year, while another 19% said the business will change forever.
By Tuesday, nearly a third of American adults had received at least one dose of the two-shot vaccines made by Moderna
MRNA, -0.04%
or Pfizer’s vaccine
PFE + 1.63%
and BioNTech
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According to a tracker from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Slightly more than 17% were fully vaccinated, said the CDC tracker.
The Johnson & Johnson
JNJ, + 1.83%
Shot, which has also received emergency clearance, is a single-dose vaccine.
The KPMG survey shows that many companies want to know their employees’ vaccination status, and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidelines state that employers can generally prescribe vaccinations.
The federal employment regulator guidelines “make it very clear that employers have the law on their side,” Sahar Aziz, a professor at Rutgers Law School who specializes in workplace discrimination, previously told MarketWatch.
The exception to this mandate, Aziz added, is workers with “sincere religious beliefs” against vaccination or workers with disabilities who prevent them from being vaccinated.
Employers can ask about an employee’s vaccination status as this is not a disability-related question under the circumstances, according to the law firm Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr. The person’s response “does not necessarily reveal the employee’s health,” the company said. There could be many reasons why a person has not yet received the company’s vaccine Lawyers noted.
For one thing, a worker may not yet have access to the vaccine.
Half of the CEOs surveyed by KPMG said their main concern was that policies and access to vaccines in different countries would hamper employee vaccination efforts. For example, European countries have countries fought in their own vaccination efforts.
A third of CEOs feared their employees would not be vaccinated because of misinformation about safety.
In the US, fewer people are waiting and hesitation is decreasing, polls show. 22% of the people surveyed in February by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health policy think tank, have chosen the “let’s wait and see”Up from 31% in January compared to 39% in December.
A poll by the Pew Research Center released earlier this month said 69% of Americans intend to get their shots or have already been vaccinated. That’s more than 60% of people who said they were planning to get a vaccination in November.
