The Right Tool for the Job: Supporting Vaccination Rates with Universal Paid Sick Leave
With COVID-19 vaccination rates lagging, it’s well past time for city, state, and federal governments to enact paid sick leave.

With COVID-19 vaccination rates lagging, it’s well past time for city, state, and federal governments to enact paid sick leave.

To date, the military branches have granted very few religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

Conservative jurisprudence during the pandemic is at odds with the goal of full, in-person employment.

Many occupational risks, after all, can be framed as universal. If those protections, too, fall, the most vulnerable will, as always, be most vulnerable.

Private employers’ discretion to establish employee vaccine mandates is generally well-accepted. Yet, legal challenges have proliferated.

The Court drew new and unprecedented lines between the kinds of risks that agencies have power to address through federal regulations.

A doctrine that essentially allows courts to strike down willy-nilly policies that they deem “major” undermines the federal government’s capacity to govern.

The ruling casts uncertainty over upcoming deadlines for vaccination compliance.
