There is a medical provider who explains the disability that prevents this employee from being vaccinated,' Camacho Moran said.Įmployment lawyers encourage individuals making requests for religious exemptions to vaccine mandates to document their beliefs in writing. 'With most disability accommodation issues, we automatically get a third party involved. Immunology professor calls Biden's new vaccine mandates 'essential' 08:26 It is new territory for many employers navigating the issue, given how risky a proposition it is to allow unvaccinated employees to mingle with, and possibly infect, colleagues in the workplace. 18 or lose their job, unless they receive an accommodation. Jay Inslee's mandate that workers be fully vaccinated by Oct.

And in Washington state, some 3,800 state workers are have requested religious exemptions to Gov. Roughly 2,600 Los Angeles Police Department employees are claiming religious objections to the department's COVID-19 vaccination requirement, according to the Associated Press. Sweeping new vaccine mandates could force millions of vaccine holdouts to become inoculated against COVID-19, although individuals of faith or people with disabilities may still be exempt from getting jabbed.Įmployers with vaccine mandates in place already report being inundated with worker requests for exemption from any requirement to get their shots. Religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccine mandates grow 04:48

Religious exemption letter for vaccines