So you’re enacting a new requirement on your entire employee base all at once, and it’s an incredibly hot button issue as well. You have these requirements happening basically en masse across the country. No one I talked to from the employment perspective had ever dealt with a religious exemption situation on this scale and all at once. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.Ĭrisann’s story is pretty similar to one Ruth Graham’s been hearing from workers around the country, people are putting their company’s HR departments through a sudden stress test. On Monday’s episode of What Next, I spoke with Graham about these exemptions and who will get one and who won’t. In other words, they feel pretty strongly about vaccines, and-they don’t want them. The millions of people now being mandated to get vaccines have a single escape hatch to cram through if they don’t want the shot: They need a religious exemption. Some have gone to protests, signed petitions. Lately, these personal anecdotes have begun to focus on one topic in particular: whether your job can require you to get a COVID vaccine and whether your religion might get you exempted if your employer is clamping down. “There’s a rising desperation in some of these quarters to find a way out of these mandates,” Graham says. It’s hard for Graham to describe what she’s been hearing. For the past few weeks, Ruth Graham has been logging on to Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, to eavesdrop. Graham reports on religion for the New York Times.
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