{"id":763,"date":"2022-03-29T10:57:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eth.lnc.mybluehost.me\/eng\/?p=763"},"modified":"2022-03-29T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:58:03","slug":"tennessee-law-prohibits-action-on-covid-19-vax-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2022\/03\/29\/tennessee-law-prohibits-action-on-covid-19-vax-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Law Prohibits Action on COVID-19 Vax Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vaccine-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1855\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vaccine-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vaccine-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Vaccine-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Tennessee has expanded protections for employees who are subject to employer COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The new law prohibits employers from compelling or otherwise taking \u201cadverse action\u201d against an employee for not providing proof of vaccination if that person objects to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine \u201cfor any reason.\u201d <br><br>Unlike federal law, employers may not deny an exemption request because this would cause an undue hardship for the employer or otherwise create a direct threat to other employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Proskauer:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawandtheworkplace.com\/2022\/03\/tennessee-expands-employee-protections-relating-to-covid-19-vaccine-mandates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tennessee Expands Employee Protections Relating to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee has expanded protections for employees who are subject to employer COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The new law prohibits employers from compelling or otherwise taking \u201cadverse action\u201d against an employee for not providing proof of vaccination if that person objects to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine \u201cfor any reason.\u201d Unlike federal law, employers may not deny an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}