The health departments in Contra Costa, Santa Clara, and San Francisco counties are urging all employers to consider implementing workplace COVID-19 safety policies that require their workforce to get fully vaccinated as soon as possible.
For any employees who are not yet fully vaccinated, employers must require and enforce masking under current state law, according to the Contra Costa County Health Department. In addition, employers are encouraged to require frequent COVID-19 testing of unvaccinated employees.
“Workers who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 pose a substantial health and financial risk to the workplace,” said Dr. Chris Farnitano, Contra Costa County’s health officer. “Most importantly, workplace exposures have led to serious illnesses and deaths.”
Requiring documentation of COVID-19 vaccination rather than self-attestation is recommended as a best practice for employers to ensure workers are adhering to the appropriate workplace protections, the health departments said.
Current state and federal employment law support employers requiring documentation of vaccination status, requiring vaccination as a condition of employment, and requiring additional safety precautions including masking and frequent testing for employees who are unvaccinated.
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Yes. Imagine the feedback as to why not. “I work all day” “I don’t have time” I get home too late to go to get my shot” on and on. These are hardworking individuals, yes. But excuses don’t cut it. So, let’s bring it to the employee, is the way to view it and present it, required not forced.
I never ever in my life got the flu shot, my reasoning? I never had the flu in my life, why would I need the shot. When COVID hit, had no hesitation about getting my shots whatsoever.
I would never work for a company that forced anything on anybody.
Sorry, the vaccine still remains a mystery of what effects it has on our bodies and the long term effects, Hand washing and masking ans distancing is the safest way to go.
No! Our bodies our choices! Take your vaccine and shove it up your @$$.
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But it’s a private company and they can choose whether or not you can work in their space.
If it is OK for businesses and companies to refuse service to others depending on their religious beliefs or sexual orientation, then it is Ok for the private companies to install their own safety regulations.
Or you could just go and get the shot and keep everyone safe
Bud E,
Businesses can not use religious beliefs and sexual orientation as reasons to not employ people. 🤦🏻♂️ Are you even serious?
Interesting, Bud E…….I doubt you held the same position when a Christian bakery refused to make a wedding cake for a homosexual couple.
Bud E – thats a bad faith argument.
Yes, its a private business…but this is (practically speaking) a government mandate that has an intermediary step. At some point, the government makes it harder for a business if they don’t toe the line. That could be additional fees, revoking of a business license…and this is all bureacractic directives…the public didn’t have a say in it at all.
And so it begins, govt agencies starting mandatory get the vaccine or your fired jargon. Here come the lawsuits if they pull this BS.
America is going down the path of mass rebellion over this BS of mandates.
Yep. It’s coming. Thinking about early retirement.
Consider this scenario:
Hello human #123456789876543221, our records show you haven’t had your Booster Jab this month.
You have 24 hours to report to your designated government doctor to receive your official government authorized injection.
Failure to comply will result in your digital wallet being frozen.
I would guess many CA employers have had just about enough of California’s regulatory culture. Heart disease is a big killer. Why don’t they focus on diet while they are at it? If we are going to require vaccination, we should also shut down all fast food restaurants and require documentation of daily exercise.
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Because heart disease is not contagious
@BUd E.
There are a lot of other things that are contagious as well, like a sexual transmitted diseases amongst some of these things and we don’t mandate anything we just suggest best practices…
Bud, flu is contagious. Do you support mandating that everyone get the yearly flu vaccine whether they want to or not? Tens of thousands die every year from the flu, if it saves one life…
Two things can both be true. Getting the vaccine is a good idea for most people and will aid the community as a whole. And secondly, the government asserting the power (through facist corporate/government fusion) to force medical procedures is evil. We used to understand the sanctity of the individual and their conscience in this culture.
By the way, everyone that wants government run healthcare. Guess what they will be able to do once they are in direct control of your medical decisions?
I honestly don’t recognize this country anymore. People will vote for totalitarianism if it makes them feel safe. And the punchline is you are never any safer, just less free.
Will never happen. An ample supply of unhealthy food and lack of exercise keeps the pharmaceutical industry lucrative.
Heart disease is not contagious.
The sheer number of people is a big problem too – we should ask employers to limit the number of kids their employees can have. Everyone wins!
And the stupidity continues!
Well, they used Farantino as the spokesperson, so that was a fail from the start. But now our county is suggesting that business FORCE employees to take a vaccine that is only EUA. It should be interesting to some that only Pfizer has applied for full FDA approval at this point ..
I get it, some folks think this is a public health emergency. Some. But if you are vaccinated, why do you care what the unvaccinated person does? This is so stupid!
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If the experimental vaccine works, then why all the concern? Surely, those who have not gotten it posses a harm to themselves. So what..
I guess this drug doesn’t do what it is supposed to do.
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Good to know Pfizer applied for full approval. Since many don’t know. EA stands for Emergency Authorization, and all the documentation says these are human trials for the vaccine
@parent, Moderna has also applied for full FDA approval.
@El D
I had not read that yet. Thanks for the info!
Yes, but the vaccine requirement should be limited to industry. For example, all Heath care workers should be required. As matter of fact, in tx, a court already ruled against nurses who didn’t want to be vaccinated.
For any employees who are not yet fully vaccinated, employers must require and enforce masking under current state law,
lol
but the left wing natzi party is allready pushing masks indoors anyways
does not matter if vaccinated or not
so the point is again mute
its just the same power game the dem politicians are invoking
and well for every persson vaccinated the politicians get what
PAID ….
why do you think pelosi is selling a 15 million dollar home near lake tahoe
because she ripped you off for years
the politicians only listen to money
that is why they dont want you to have any
and tax us like cattle
So nobody is dropping in the streets
Nobody is even sniffling or sneezing
People who wanted to get vaccinated got vaccinated but CCHealth is advocating that employers force unvaccinated people to resign?
I think that the county supervisors need to have a discussion with CCHealth
They are not tasked with creating employment policy for CC
This press release is way out of line and offensive
Do something!
I’m fully vaccinated and I think others should be vaccinated as well. However, this suggestion is fascist. Contra Costa County health should stay out of this and do their job. Shame on the supervisors for letting this continue
Medical tyranny.
This is where I, and many others, both vaccinated and unvaccinated draw the line.
The same people who shut down businesses now want to dictate what business should do.
Small business owners aren’t fooled by the authoritarian activists that make up the county health department.
Segregationism is alive and well.
Sorry, but the trust is GONE.
VAERS database is Scrubbing actual deaths & injuries.
Throughout this whole SCAM, Never once has diet and lifestyle been mentioned. God forbid someone suggests Vitamin D, Zinc, Ivermectin!!!
Coco health is a big failure.
Was it a scam in India too?
Where does it stop? If they’re going to require employees to get the jab then it’s a very short step to require customers to be jabbed also. Walk into your favorite restaurant without your Gestapo vaxx card? Sorry, we don’t serve your kind here…
This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard!
THIS IS SO DUMB!!!
Nope, not gonna do it! I’m not going to ask my employees any questions that pertain to their health and personal choices.
Congratulations, you will have no problem finding good help going forward. You’re gonna go far. I wish you good health, great success, and infinite wealth. 🌟🇺🇸🏆🏆🏆
Thank you!
My company requires proof of vaccination to not where a mask. Seems reasonable to me
My dad is right, you can’t fix stupid.
Can we say Tyranny! Look some people don’t want a experimental vaccine which is completely there choice. If you want to get the Vaccine Great your choice! So if stated the vaccine is supposed to “protect you” what is the problem? Wake up and don’t fear your so called Government its time for the people to take there power back,
At this moment in time is there an overabundance of labor available or is there an underabundance of labor available?
Seems to me that employers are having a very hard time finding people willing to be employees. Will adding further restrictions upon current employees cause some to leave and will those added restrictions cause potential employees to look else where for jobs?
I guess time will tell.
It is our choice not to be vaccinated so therefore we have to accept the outcome of our choice
Wanna be totalitarians just looking out for their subjects!!
EUA products are unapproved, unlicensed, and experimental. Under the Nuremberg Code—the foundaton of ethical medicine—no one may be coerced to partcipate in a medical experiment. The individual’s consent is absolutely essental. No court has ever upheld a mandate for an EUA vaccine. In Doe #1 v. Rumsfeld, 297 F. Supp. 2d 119 (2003)15, a federal court held that the U.S. military could not mandate EUA vaccines for soldiers: “…[T]he United States cannot demand that members of the armed forces also serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs” (Id. at 135).
You may wish to check the case involving Houston Methodist Hospital. The hospital required its employees to be vaccinated or either resign or be fired. Over 150 workers chose took one or the other route out the door and no longer work there. Earlier, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by employees claiming their employer could not require them to be vaccinated.
“The hospital’s employees are not participants in a human trial,” Judge Hughes wrote. “Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them the Covid-19 virus. It is a choice made to keep staff, patients and their families safer.”
Some of those personnel refusing the EUA injection at Methodist Hospital were on the front lines during the height of the pandemic and caught COVID 19. Their body’s acquired natural immunity to COVID 19 is infinitely superior to the EUA injection. Why should they be forced? Why all of the sudden are we not following the science?
The case is being appealed, rightly so. Judge Hughes decision will not stand, he’s way out on limb and he knows it!
There goes another junk of your personal freedom.
The bleeding hearts must do so happy.
The grip of communism gets tighter and tighter.
The French government is beginning to require its citizens to show proof of vaccination if they want to enjoy life.
https://news.yahoo.com/france-launches-vaccine-pass-cultural-025142679.html
Here is the official statement (in French):https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/actualites/A15048
It seems we are heading the way they are going.
It appears that President Biden is no longer able to discuss Covid without losing his train of thought. During Wednesday’s Townhall on CNN, when asked about children under the age of 12 getting vaccines, Biden said:
‘And the question is whether or not we should be in a position where you uh, um, are – why can’t the, the, the experts say we know that this virus is, in fact, uh, um, uh, it’s going to be – or, excuse me, we, we, we know why all the drugs approved are not temporarily approved by permanently approved. That’s underway too. I expect that to occur quickly,’
From the Daily Mail: https://bit.ly/36WIu8W
CC County :1,517 new cases in the last 14 day. Do what you want, I got my 2 jabs.
https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/overview
Who believes the lies released by the county? I know I don’t…
OK so read this.
https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/23/federal-law-prohibits-employers-and-others-from-requiring-vaccination-with-a-covid-19-vaccine-distributed-under-an-eua/
The fact that people think this is acceptable – mind blowing. Freedoms are being eroded. Understand that the government “urging” employers to require vaccines is because they (the government) cannot LEGALLY DO THIS. My businesses will never require vaccines and my goal is to offer job opportunities in many different industries so people will have a safe haven to work – free of spineless businesses and corporations who require their employees to make personal compromises just to earn money. WT LITERAL F, you guys. You can’t earn money if you’re not vaccinated? Pull your head out of the weeds for a sec – what f’ing planet are we living on?
You sound like an AWESOME employer and thank you for taking the stance that you do!
There are different issues here. First of all a private business has the right to do what they deem best for their business and safe for their employees. If you come into work coughing, sneezing with a high fever, your employee can ask you to go home. He can do it out of compassion for the person who is ill, he can also do it because be fear that a sick employee might make other employee’s ill, thus putting his business in jeopardy . An private business has the right to determine what is best for his business and his employees. If he is worried about an employee infecting others, he can take appropriate action However, if he terminated an employee because said employee won’t get vaccinated, employee can probably get either unemployment or workmans comp, not sure. I see lawsuit from different groups coming.
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Sure, employers shouldn’t require employees to disclose their vaccination status. They should be required however to disclose that to the public, so potential customers can make informed decisions on where they do business. Have a sign in the window.. no masks required and we don’t ask, simple as that.
Guess I’ll go on unemployment for not getting the shot. Thanks CCC!
if you’re scared, get the shot. Otherwise mind your own business. What other people choose to do is not your concern. If you think it is, YOU are the problem.
“Current state and federal employment law support requiring documentation of vaccination status”
Really? What law is that?
“As a condition of employment”
Meaning pre-employment consent? as in nursing or other hospital work?
There is no current law that makes it legal to force existing employees to get “vaccinated” or be terminated, no way
This is a mealy-mouthed Marxist wishcasting statement
Just a continuation of the assault on their opposition using public agencies
Which makes them illegitimate and unable to perform the duty of the office faithfully and certainly worthy of immediate termination of involved persons
https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=french+protests&fr=iphone&.tsrc=apple
Sounds awfully Nazi like, I would & will never work for any employer with this stance.
As I have been asking. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REGULAR FLU THE PAST 16 MONTHS????
CDC now admits that PCR test is garbage and cannot distinguish between convid and flu.
Read and weep…..straight from CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html
You want to see half you staff leave the work force??? we are ready to walk, have fun with no nurses to care for you, the same nurses who have worked all year, not sick , with no vaccine, The jab is useless, people have no idea the lies that are being told, no idea,
“My body my choice”… hahahahahahah rofl.
Bunch of hypocrites.
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