On 1/13/2013 1:44 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:12:32 -0600, wrote:
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>> Back a few years ago, I had a job which required every worker to get the
>> flu shot. It was free to the workers. I refused. I was told that I
>> either quit my job, or must fill out all kinds of forms, which stated
>> that my employer is not liable if I get the flu, and I'm talking pages
>> and pages of written legal gobbledygook..... I wasted 2 hours filling
>> out all the paperwork.

Why don't I believe this?

A couple weeks later i was fired for "no reason
>> given". I was happy to suck every last cent of unemployment
>> compensation from them.... This was in the US.
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Some states are "At Will" states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

They don't have to give you a reason. I doubt it had anything to do
with refusing get the flu shot. They offered free flu shots at one
place I worked. I certainly didn't have to fill out copious amounts of
paperwork. They just posted notices of when the shots would be
available. Sign up if you want one. Do you *really* think they were
keeping tally sheets of people who refused to get a flu shot so they
could fire them later?

> Here in CT it is in the courts now. A hospital required the shots and
> a couple of people refused.
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It *might* make sense to request (not *require*) the flu shot if you're
someone working directly with patients. People in the hospital are
already sick, otherwise they wouldn't be in the hospital.

Jill