Amy Traub is chair of BakerHostetler’s national Labor and Employment Group and is in the firm’s New York office. She is an experienced employment litigator and adviser, focusing her practice on the management side of employment law matters for clients in all industries, with a focus on the health care, hospitality, and retail industries.
Employers thinking about requiring employees to receive vaccination against Covid-19 in order to return to the workplace have serious legal issues to work through first. Baker & Hostetler LLP labor and employment partners Nancy Inesta and Amy J. Traub offer some pointers for prescreening questions, communication, and timing.
As businesses begin to hire new workers or recall furloughed or former employees, companies should analyze data to ensure no trends support an allegation of systemic discrimination related to COVID-19, say Amy Traub at BakerHostetler and Paul White at Resolution Economics.
Companies are taking differing approaches to requiring COVID vaccines, but the trend's moving toward more large employers requiring them.