Employee Privacy Drug Testing vs. Mandatory Vaccinations
Mandatory vaccinations and various drug-testing regimens have long been used in the American workplace as a condition of employment in an effort to protect organizations as well as individual employees. Many Americans, however, are adamantly opposed to Covid-19 vaccine mandates, some to the point of resigning or even becoming violent in response to them despite having been already vaccinated for a laundry list of other diseases during their lives. To gain some new insights into this issue, the purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature to compare and contrast the benefits that employers and society receive from these policies to the degree to which they impinge upon employee privacy. In addition, a discussion concerning what criteria businesses should use in determining whether or not to enact these types of policies is followed by a summary of the research and key findings in the conclusion.
Review and Discussion
Many public health officials are dismayed by the refusal of large numbers of Americans to get the jab as a preventative to the Covid-19 virus. Part of this dismay relates to this reluctance despite scientific evidence that Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective as well as the fact that Americans have been routinely vaccinated as a condition of employment or attendance at public schools for a long period of time. For example, according to a recent response from the U.S. Surgeon General (2021) concerning public skepticism and reluctance to be...
…on the part of management concerning the use of illicit drugs (Lvovsky, 2018). Here again, the Fourth Amendment protections against invasions of privacy generally do not apply to drug-testing regimens because they too are regarded as a condition of voluntary employment which workers can easily terminate if they object. Indeed, even the most die-hard critics of drug-testing would likely want to know that firefighters, law enforcement authorities or their heart surgeon are not high on something that would affect their performance.Conclusion
If humankind survives the panoply of existential threats that are arrayed against humanity at present, historians in the 22nd century will likely regard this period in American history as truly baffling given the widespread acceptance of vaccinations and even drug-testing in the workplace prior to…
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Helms, K. (December 28, 2018). It’s Flu Season Again… Are Your Mandatory Vaccination Policies Immune to Legal Challenge? The National Law Review. Retrieved from https://www.natlawreview.com/article/it-s-flu-season-again-are-your-mandatory-vaccination-policies-immune-to-legal
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