{"id":16519,"date":"2021-10-30T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=16519"},"modified":"2021-10-30T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:06:08","slug":"federal-vaccine-mandate-for-any-employers-of-over-100-employees-is-coming-city-of-lakeland-mr-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/10\/30\/federal-vaccine-mandate-for-any-employers-of-over-100-employees-is-coming-city-of-lakeland-mr-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal vaccine mandate for any employers of over 100 employees is coming \u2026 City of Lakeland Mr. Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The city of Lakeland is offering Vaccine Incentive Leave Days (see memo below) to the police department only<\/strong>, not the fire or utility worker unions, why? Why not all Lakeland city workers? All city workers are subject to the Federal vaccine mandate for any employer of over 100 employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Biden\u2019s executive order<\/a> and https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/covidplan\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Labor\u2019s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work. OSHA will issue an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to implement this requirement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaccination deadline of\u00a0Nov. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employers who do not comply with the ETS could face OSHA citations and penalties of up to $14,000 per violation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Employer Vaccine Incentives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employers can\u00a0offer incentives<\/a>\u00a0to their employees to confirm they or their families are vaccinated. If an employer offers the vaccination itself, however, the program must be voluntary because the employer would have to ask screening questions before giving the vaccine that is related to disability or family medical history that is prohibited under the ADA and GINA. If incentives offered are so great that the employee is effectively coerced into answering these questions, the program would be involuntary and would violate the law. Incentives to get vaccinated from community-based providers \u2014 for instance, at a pharmacy \u2014 are allowed. Simply inquiring about vaccine status violates neither of these laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city of Lakeland is offering Vaccine Incentive Leave Days (see memo below) to the police department only, not the fire or utility worker unions, why? Why not all Lakeland… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[1552],"class_list":["post-16519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-federal-vaccine-mandate-for-any-employer-of-over-100-employees-is-coming-city-of-lakeland-mr-mayor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}