That's true to an extent. I'm not sure anyone on here is advocating that people or businesses shouldn't be taking precautions.
I think there's a world of difference between requiring a vaccine, especially a new one, and a restraining device like a harness. OSHA, for instance, doesn't require every employee to get a Hepatitis shot, even though it's entirely possible for an employee to be exposed to blood and other bodily fluids that could be infected.I think being required to wear a safety harness is unconstituitonal. If I want to fall 100 ft and splatter on the ground, that's my constitutional right !!! ... as long as I don't kill someone else on the ground.
I'm not sure how you can think a job isn't a right. Anti-discrimination laws like equal opportunity kind of heavily imply that it is, otherwise how couldn't a business turn down applicants for things such as applicant sex, age, or disability status?
No, those laws make it illegal to discriminate on those grounds but they don’t make it so that each and every person is entitled to a job.
Do I think OSHA would attempt a blanket requirement to vaccinate against Hepatitis? Not really.
Sure, you don't have a right to a particular job, but you do have the right to have a job in general. If you didn't, it wouldn't be illegal to discriminate against those and other protected classes. It couldn't be illegal as you wouldn't have a right that's being impeded.
A few are crying it's "unconstitutional" for companies to pose a mandate that workers are vaccinated or else take a test. They think they can do whatever they want at work I guess.
They aren't requiring a vaccination. They can routinely test if they aren't vaccinated. Both options are to mitigate risk to the entire work force, just like a safety harness or any other safety related process does.
I think it skirts the line. I think it's fine for companies to require employees wear masks and distance unless they're vaccinated or have had COVID previously.
You're trying to equate equality and lack of discrimination among all job applicants as a "right" to have that job. Big difference. I can't go to any company and demand that they hire me just because I have the "constitutional right" to have the job they have an opening for.
They're requiring one or the other, without formalizing how the other will be handled. Or, as far as I know, how the testing needs to be done and by whom.
No, I'm saying you have the right to have a job in the US. Not necessarily a particular job.
If you google it, there is divide of thought on this. But even if it was a "right" there are obviously requirements set forth by the employer and others for them to give you a job. Proof of being vaccinated or testing as required is going to be one of those stipulations if this pandemic continues as is. People you can either accept that or not have the job. So that "right" to work does not over power the requirements needed or defined to work the job.
