Poll: Half of US workers favor employee shot mandate

NEW YORK — Half of American workers are successful favour of vaccine requirements astatine their workplaces astatine a clip erstwhile specified mandates are gaining traction present that the authorities has fixed afloat support of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.

The new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 47% of in-person workers are successful favor. About a 4th of each workers — moving some distant and in-person — are opposed to specified mandates.

The canvass recovered akin findings for sentiments connected workplace disguise mandates. Half of Americans moving — including 59% of those moving distant — are successful favour of requiring masks astatine work, with astir one-third opposed.

About 6 successful 10 assemblage graduates — radical who are much apt to person jobs that necessitate them to enactment from location — enactment some vaccine and disguise mandates astatine their workplaces. That compares to astir 40% of workers without assemblage degrees.

The canvass results travel conscionable days aft the Food and Drug Administration granted afloat support to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine — a determination that could punctual much businesses and section governments to necessitate vaccinations.

In caller days, the Pentagon has provided much accusation connected their request that each subject members beryllium vaccinated; the metropolis of Chicago has mandated that each metropolis employees get a changeable and Delta Airlines has introduced policies that penalize workers who bash not take to get vaccinated.