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Law's Sharona Hoffman explains why employers have the right to require vaccines

MEDIA | August 9, 2021
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

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KCDOSharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, said that employers have the right to require vaccines. "There is another law, the Americans with Disabilities Act, that does have a confidentiality mandate for employers and also governs what kind of inquiries an employer can make, but as long as the inquiry is job-related, employers have a right to make those kinds of inquiries” she said. “They’re keeping the workplace safe, keeping employees safe, keeping customers or clients safe. This is job-related, and so employers are within their rights to require people to upload their vaccine cards and to make other inquiries about it."