Can Hawaii Employers Force Workers To Be Vaccinated? It’s A Hot Topic Right Now … More and more agencies and business are announcing vaccine mandates for employees if they want to keep their jobs.
Honolulu lawyer Jeffrey Harris, a labor and employment attorney advising businesses on how to implement Covid-19 mandates for employees, has one piece of advice for Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi: move immediately to dismiss a federal lawsuit brought by first responders challenging the city and county’s policy of requiring them to be vaccinated.
“It’s directly against U.S. Supreme Court precedent,” Harris told a webinar organized by the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, where member businesses clamored for details on how to implement vaccine mandates.
Lawyers for the Honolulu firefighters, paramedics and police objecting to the mandated vaccinations disagree with Harris. They’ve laid out their reasons in a 60-page complaint filed recently in Honolulu federal court.
