Final Thoughts

April 9, 2021
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
Over the weekend I was speaking with the CEO of a service center and we were talking about the resistance he was seeing from his plant employees. Many of them did not want to get the COVID vaccine. The office people were mostly vaccinated, but the plant people were not. We discussed the possibility of providing incentives to protect his company, both office and plant, but left the discussion with no clear resolution.
I did a little research and came across an article from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), which reported that many employment attorneys are stumped about providing incentives to get employees vaccinated. There is a lack of legal guidance about appropriate incentives, which is likely to keep many companies from moving ahead.


