Posted on 10/08/2021 11:40:41 AM PDT by Paul46360
Since OSHA has NOT released guidelines pursuant to the old man wanted but they are firing workers NOW..can these workers then in turn SUE employer for illegal firing?
I know that SCOTUS upheld a Massachusetts small pox vaccine..but that vaccine was FDA approved while the PFIZER one isn't.
> can these workers then in turn SUE employer for illegal firing? <
I think they can sue if the employee has a contract (a union contract or some other kind of agreement). But even then there might be some “health and safety” clause in the contract.
But otherwise, I don’t see how a lawsuit could be successful.
Did you see the restaurant owner in Texas? He has 4 eateries, and had 140 employees. 46 were vaccinated. He fired the vaccinated for being “stupid enough to let the govt run their lives” and split their pay between the 94 employees he has left. So now he’s under 100 and doesn’t have to worry about it anymore.
But this is not smallpox and the guy never did get vaccinated.
He paid a $5 fine, instead.
Who do I send my $5 to?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
The Massachusetts case is irrelevant, that was a state/local code, this issue will turn on whether the federal government has the power, far less clear. But on the other hand, it’s already been well-established that a private company can fire someone for nothing getting vaxxed, so there’s no case there, so far as I’m aware.
Good. For. Him!
Most employees are under at will employment. They can fire you for farting in the hallway.
No government mandated medical procedure should be tolerated, especially one that is experimental.
What’s next?
Mandatory spay and neuter for conservatives?
To me it is coercion and uninformed consent for experimental injections in violation of the NC, but nobody is asking me.
that is agreed..but to say your FIRED for not getting a COVID shot..me thinks goes in another direction. Especially since say the time before the old phuck said that...employers were not thinking it? IMHO
Not a lawyer, but I sure would hope so.
That’s a bluff because if companies try that, then they will face litigation that will cost them more than if they just paid unemployment for 1 year.
For example the average unemployment is $320 a week before taxes. That comes to $1,200 a month x 12 = 14k a year.
That 14k is cheaper to pay, than facing lawsuit after lawsuit. The companies have to pay the Attorney’s and not only risk losing but paying way more. Believe me they rather settle out of court.
It’s called risk vs. reward.
We no longer live in the USA, the constitutional republic. There are no rights. The process of passing laws has been bypassed by Let’s Go Brandon!
No. There isn't a lot that qualifies as an illegal firing and this isn't one of them.
It wouldn’t surprise me if uncle sam was compensating companies for terminating for this reason.
There was no FDA in 1903
thanks.
Sounds like one of those Internet tall tales but if it is true, well, I would like to eat at that restaurant and give them some business!
In right to work states, no.
Perhaps in the future a civil case, but you as an employee have very few rights in a “right to work state.”
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