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December 7, 2020 ¦ Vol. 46, No. 49 ¦ $10.00 Connecticut firm
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Employment Lawyers Weigh In
On Vaccines, Workers’ Rights

By ROBERT STORACE

As news that vaccines for
COVID-19 could be ready
for mass distribution in
the spring or early summer of
2021, employment attorneys are
keeping busy speaking with their
clients—both employers and em-
ployees—on how, when and if
employees would get vaccinated.
While experts agree there are
many unknowns since this coun-
try hasn’t faced a health pandemic
on this scale in 102 years, they all Vaccine shot. Photo: BaLL LunLa/Shutterstock.com

agree on one thing: Decisions employees and em- Quinnipiac University School of Law adjunct pro-
ployers make on vaccinations will affect not just fessor Michael Soltis.
themselves, but those around and close to them. Soltis, who has represented employers in the
“Without exaggerating, this is the most conse- area of employment law for more than four de-
quential employment issue of our lifetime because cades, continued: “To the extent that this virus
it affects every employee in this country,” said
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