The Supreme Court on June 29, 2023, changed the definition of ‘undue hardship’ so that employers have to accommodate more of workers’ religious requests.
- Professor of Law, Baruch College, CUNY
A legal scholar explains what the ruling means for other vaccine mandates and the government’s ability to protect public health.
Overlapping vaccine mandates at the federal, state and local levels aims to reduce the number of unvaccinated Americans.
New guidelines take a broad definition of who can apply for a religious exemption to vaccinations. A lot will hinge on what constitutes ‘undue hardship’ to the employer.
For a COVID-19 vaccine to stop the pandemic, a large percentage of the population will have to get vaccinated. A law professor explains how far government and employer vaccine mandates can legally go.
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