Posted on 01/02/2013 10:00:43 AM PST by Sopater
GOSHEN, Ind. – A northern Indiana hospital has fired eight employees who refused to get flu shots under a new policy intended to protect patients from the potentially deadly illness. IU Health Goshen Hospital officials told its staff in September that flu shots would no longer be optional for staff, affiliated physicians, volunteers and vendors. Hospital spokeswoman Melanie McDonald told The Elkhart Truth for a Monday story that the new requirements came as a recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Medical Association and other major health agencies. McDonald said patients with compromised immune systems are at a heightened risk for illness and death from the flu and protecting them is the hospital's "top priority."
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Most everyone here will base their acceptance of this hospital’s decision on their opinion of flu shots not on the rights of the parties.
Most people cannot accept that private parties have the right to dictate the terms of employment irregardless of most “rights” the employee has. Many here would say it is wrong for the hospital to disallow employees from bringing weapons into the hospital.
What if your work required you get a tattoo or be fired?
What if your work required you take an experimental vaccine?
What if your work required you to take a vaccine derived from aborted fetal cells?
What if your work required you to take a vaccine with known dangerous compounds in it?
What if your work required you to take a vaccine that had a high rate of dangerous side effects?
What if your work required you to have an rfid microchip implanted in your hand to operate their new security system?
In any of those cases, you should be free to accept the terms of employment and keep your job or refuse them and lose it.
so you won’t mind when your employer creates a policy arbitrarily that it knows you won’t accept, and thus gets rid of you without having to actually fire you for a legitimate reason?
insubordination of failing to follow idiotic policies in order to make it appear they/are justified in firing you is ridiculous and there’s probably a lawsuit in it.
I wouldn’t work there!
My son’s private Christian schools has lots of requirements made of it’s employees. They can’t wear certain clothes. The cannot be living with someone out of wedlock. They can’t be pregnant out of wedlock. They have lots of rules about social media, but I don’t know all of those.
and if your employer is personally gunning for you and gets rid of you by establishing stupid rules they know you won’t accept, you are totally okay with that?
what if they say you have to remain single to work there? what if they say you can’t have kids and work there?
it seems like you don’t have problems with rules where employers force you to do things with your body. i asume you wouldn’t have problems with the company saying “no kids”.
apparently there’s not much a company could do that crosses any legal lines for you.
there are real, documented health issues with vaccines and also the actual benefit of vaccines are questionable. they just did a study that looked at 20+ flu studies over the last 50 years to see benefits of getting a flu shot, they found from all that data if you got a shot, you were only 4% less likely to get the flu than if you didn’t get the shot at all. that’s it. hardly worth mandating it.
this is just propping up a crappy big pharma product. this is vaccine subsidies is what it is.
American courts have long recognized that the 1st Amendment prohibits the government from dictating terms of employment to ministerial employees of churches. Even people you don’t like have freedom of religion.
Umm, in case my post # 28 made no sense, it’s because I posted it on the wrong thread.
Were they self-insured for employee health costs?
IF you want, you can always tell an admin mod to delete that post because it was posted to the wrong thread. They’ll do it for mistakes.
To work at Starbucks, you have to drink coffee. Epileptics can’t drink coffee. I don’t think an epileptic should work there.
To work at Starbucks, you have to drink coffee. Epileptics can’t drink coffee. I don’t think an epileptic should work there.
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