The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 42 U.S.C. 12112(d), 12113(b); 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2; 29 C.F.R. 1630.2(r)
- Issued
- 2021-05-28 May 28, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-05-28
- End
- updated Oct. 13 and Oct. 25, 2021 and later (read as 2021-10-25)
- In force
- May 28, 2021 to Oct. 25, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesVaccination or testingQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- ADA- and Title VII-covered employers
- Character
- agency guidance permissive
- Collection
- Standing duties: Federal layer DUT-FED
Operative words
Updated on May 28, 2021.... K.1. Under the ADA, Title VII, and other federal employment nondiscrimination laws, may an employer require all employees physically entering the workplace to be vaccinated for COVID-19? (5/28/21) The federal EEO laws do not prevent an employer from requiring all employees physically entering the workplace to be vaccinated for COVID-19, subject to the reasonable accommodation provisions of Title VII and the ADA and other EEO considerations discussed below.
Penalty
What it required
Permissive: the EEOC's position in force for 2021Q3 that employer vaccination requirements, screening and exclusion of unvaccinated or symptomatic employees were consistent with federal EEO law subject to accommodation; the compulsion to adopt such measures came from the health-care conditions of participation, the federal contractor order and the State and local mandates. Character as recorded: agency_guidance_permissive ('do not prevent').