Handling employee religious objections to getting vaccinated

Any employer requiring workers to get vaccinated will inevitably have to contend with employees who object to getting inoculated based on religious grounds, notes our colleagues at SESCO Management Consultants.

In weighing an employee’s objection, the key thing to keep in mind is that an employee must be objecting to getting vaccinated based on a “sincerely held religious belief,” SESCO says, adding that religious beliefs don’t include political and social philosophies or mere personal preferences.

In a recent post, SESCO lays how to determine whether vaccine resistance is genuinely rooted in a worker’s religious beliefs or not, and how employers may react in response to each scenario.

You can read the full SESCO analysis by clicking this link.