kenpoprofessor said:TheAccountant said:What “freedom” are you referring to? The freedom of employees telling the business owners what the rules are? That’s the same nonexistent “freedom” the leftwing socialist unions push.
If you don’t like it, invest your time, money, effort, and risk and build your own business. Until then, shut up and do what you’re told.
I agree with most of what you write, however, the caveat is: If an employer forces his/her employees to get the vaccine, and they decide to leave instead, what will the employer do??? If over half the workforce decides they won't participate in the experiment, he'll have to let them go, right???? So, who will do the work? Especially trained techs like myself, who, while not irreplaceable, would be near impossible to fill the position.
What happens when a business decides to contract with a vendor, but then requires that the vendor's folks have the vaccine. The vendor doesn't have the manpower to do the job with the amount of vaccinated folks. The business tries again, and again, and again with different vendors, with no luck, what do they do???
Have you seen the folks entering the workforce in the last year???
Clyde
I think any time employees are leaving or you’re having difficulty finding employees you have to look at what you’re asking for (skills, qualifications, experience, etc) compared to what you’re giving (ie comp & benefits). If you’re losing people then your competitors are doing something better than you are, and you probably need to fix it before it becomes a top line problem. So if you are demanding X, Y, and Z of your employees and your competitors are only demanding X and Y, then you better be doing something ($$) to make up for the extra demands. It doesn’t matter if the extra demand is a vaccine, a certification, a degree, hours, or anything else. Retaining and incentivizing people isn’t a new problem and there’s a reason firms get paid big money to develop plans for companies.
What makes that difficult is for some of these positions you’re biggest competitor is the government that’s willing to pass out money to people to sit on their ass.