Financial incentives for COVID vaccines: Feds give employers green light
If you want to offer employees financial incentives to vaccinate themselves against COVID-19, go right ahead! It’s OK with the federal government.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) just released guidance that clears employers to incentivize their workforce to get the COVID vaccine.
Of course, this comes from the federal government here, it’s not so cut-and-dried. Check out the specifics so your company can stay in compliance.
Financial incentives can’t be ‘too large’
New EEOC technical assistance says that employers can toss out a carrot to their workers to receive the COVID shot.
But beware: Those incentives can’t be so large that they’d prompt employees to disclose medical info they wouldn’t be comfortable disclosing. That would violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Only trouble? The EEOC offered no guidance on what would make an incentive “too large.”
So tread carefully. We’ll update you if the EEOC releases additional clarification.
- Share on
Free Training & Resources
White Papers
Provided by Personify Health
White Papers
Provided by Anaplan
Further Reading
How many meetings do you have scheduled? Too many! Most finance leaders say that whether they have two or 20! Meetings take up a lot ...
It’s a good bet we’ll hear a lot about big companies laying off employees in the coming weeks. The latest example: Goldman Sach...
Business school students aren’t waiting until springtime to apply for jobs and internships anymore. Hiring managers are busy sifting ...
Motivating people is a common problem for business leaders. Workers who need reminders about meeting deadlines and always striving to give ...
Sales and use tax shouldn’t just be the responsibility of your A/P and A/R departments. Although they’re the ones who are ...
Leaders inside and outside finance sometimes unknowingly hurt productivity. The key word here is unknowingly. You’d likely neve...
