Oklahoma universities announce COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employees

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TULSA, Okla. — Several universities crossed Oklahoma denote they volition necessitate each employees to person the COVID-19 vaccine to comply with the Biden administration's mandate.

On Sept. 9, Pres. Biden signed enforcement orders to necessitate each national enforcement subdivision workers to beryllium vaccinated and employees of contractors that bash concern with the national government.

The University of Tulsa, the University of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State University are saying each employees indispensable beryllium afloat vaccinated by Dec. 8. This does not use to those who suffice for aesculapian oregon spiritual exemptions.

The universities each authorities the crushed they are pursuing the mandates is owed to hiring national declaration workers. As of close now, the Biden administration's mandate does not see an enactment for workers to instrumentality COVID-19 tests alternatively of being vaccinated.

Student employees volition beryllium required to person the vaccine, but not the wide pupil populations astatine immoderate of the universities bash not request one.

Governor Kevin Stitt has spoken retired respective times being against the vaccine mandate, calling the enactment "unconstitutional."

Employees astatine each 3 universities volition person to person their last vaccination of immoderate approved COVID-19 vaccine by Nov. 24 to conscionable the Dec. 8 deadline.

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