United Airlines CEO calls on companies to mandate COVID-19 vaccination

CNBC had earlier reported the news of Kirby wanting to mandate the vaccine for employees.

Companies are still in the early stages of navigating access and distribution of vaccines against the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, but inoculation is considered the key to safely resume operations at crowded warehouses, factory lines and on sales floors.

There is already considerable discourse about whether private companies would be able make the vaccine mandatory. Seemingly, private US companies could require employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

‘Employers generally have wide scope to make rules for the workplace, said Dorit Reiss, a law professor who specialises in vaccine policies at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. ‘It’s their business.’