Report: FDA Approval of Vaccine Opens Door to Protection for Hostile Reactions| Employees Compensation Information

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 | 0

The US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a COVID-19 vaccine opens the door for employers to require vaccinations, as well as the option that employee compensation is likely to have to cover side effects suffered by an employee on a workplace mandate, so a report in the Denver Post.

The FDA on Monday fully approved Pfizer’s vaccine, which was previously approved under emergency approval status, which has sometimes been cited in lawsuits alleging that employers cannot require workers to receive a vaccine that the FDA cannot approved unconditionally.

Christine Samsel, employment law attorney at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in Denver, told the Post that her law firm was waiting for full approval before telling employers they were legally entitled to require vaccinations.

Samsel also said that while side effects are rare, if they were related to compliance with a job mandate, they would be covered by employee compensation.

“Now that it’s fully approved, it’s being treated as a flu vaccine,” she said. “It would be included in my legal assessment.”