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Now it'll be interesting to see where states and large companies go, as they still have the freedom to impose mandates.
by zwieback 5y ago
Now it'll be interesting to see where states and large companies go, as they still have the freedom to impose mandates.
- dham 5y agoIf an all remote company wants to impose a vaccine mandate I suppose they can...., but I mean it seems like a huge waste of time. Hiring in engineering is already so hard right now no need to make it harder.
- hogrider 5y agoLitmus test for determining common sense. Or if you get cynical, "cultural fit".
- dham 5y agoAre you saying if someone isn't vaccinated for Covid 19 they can't be a good team member and contributor at a high level? Because that sounds really really bad.. and dangerous.
- kbelder 5y agoI assumed he meant it the other way around, as showing management lacks common sense by imposing the mandate under those conditions. But I guess it could go either way, depending on one's preconceptions.
- peteradio 5y agoCould read it either way. If a remote company has stupid policies on full display, imagine the unseen policies.
- jcadam 5y agoPeople are saying it. And it is really bad and dangerous
- hindsightbias 5y agoLarge companies with older workers will eventually have to mandate, they can’t afford the long covid costs/insurance. They can’t fire people for smoking or obesity, but this will give them an out. More youthful companies will punt but check back in when Covid-35 or -40 hits. I wonder if Health Insurance providers will make it mandatory or have different rates based on vax.
- zwieback 5y agoI'd like to see insurers say "due to COVID our costs have gone up but you can get a discount if you're vaxxed." Increasing just for unvaxxed is probably hard but offering an incentive may work. Where I work we have a mandate and it's like 98% compliance. A few have opted to go 100% remote so they can avoid the vaccine but practically nobody quit over this.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoWonder if that would be legal under ACA and other existing laws regulating health insurance. You can do it for tobacco use but can't do it for a whole lot else. They'd probably need Congressional approval and if that were possible, Congress always would have passed a mandate law instead of the Executive Branch trying to make their own law.
- nradov 5y agoDue to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), medical insurers can't legally set premiums based on vaccination status. However, employers are generally allowed to cut their contributions to employee insurance premiums on that basis.
- hindsightbias 5y agoInformative!
- yucky 5y agoDo you have a source for that? It's interesting.