Can a health care facility, which receives federal funds, require vaccination for it’s staff?
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Can a health care facility, which receives federal funds, require vaccination for it’s staff?
Asked on October 2, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, New Hampshire
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SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Yes, it may. Employers may put terms or conditions on employment, and one condition could be having vacinations. Even if an employee claimed a religious exemption, the facility could likely still require the vacination, because religious objections cannot be ones that impact safety or reasonable job obligations. So just as, for example, a pizza place could require a Jewish employee to drive deliveries on Friday night, since that's the core of their business, or a factory could ban a Muslim women working there from wearing any covering which could get caught in the machinery, a health care facilty could require that all employees be vacinnated, so as to avoid potentially exposing their often-sick or -vulnerable clients to preventable disease.
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