Why are vaccinated people leaving due to the park having a policy that you have to be vaccinated or get tested?
COVID-19’s Impacts on BGW
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Because some people don’t wish to disclose information regarding vaccinations to anyone
Using an argument that I don't agree with just to explain the view point of some. That is personal medical info that a person should not be forced to give up for employment.
The rebuttal to that is you are already forced to give up personal medical info in any number of situations related to employment. For example you are required to disclose a positive test for Covid. There are many occupation where you are required to disclose and may renew lose your job for testing positive for HIV. Many employers perform mandatory drug screening. Heck I have had jobs where a current tetanus shot was required that I had to submit documentation on.
A couple reasons I’ve heard from co-workers (and they were vaccinated) had to do with privacy concerns around medical information and security of the systems documenting this information. I’d also assume anyone having to get a medical waiver may end up having to disclose other medical information they may not want to.
This is not true, they are still asking employees to provide them with proof of vaccination, but they are not asking those who don't to test negative. They have no requirement for that.
The proof of vaccination is nothing new, either. They have been doing that since last summer. That's why some employees have checkmarks on their name tags (some departments have green wristbands), they have voluntarily disclosed their vaccination status and they are permitted to be maskless in certain situations. If they don't have a checkmark or wristband then they have either chosen to not disclose or have not been vaccinated. These people are supposed to wear a mask at all times when on property.
It's possible what I saw was something that went out before the Court ruling and is not now going to be enforced. But I definitely was shown what appears to be a legitimate email saying the employee had a little more time to provide proof of vaccination and that those that didn't would have to submit poof of a negative test no more then 5 days prior to their first shift after the deadline. The person that showed it to me was not happy and was definitely under the impression that it was still policy.
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This was definitely before the supreme court issued their opinion. It is no longer their policy, I reached out to confirm this with my sources and I was told that it is confusing because both posts are still on SEAport (the employee website) but that is because they are still allowing TMs to submit their vaccination cards, if they want. However, on a separate post it is made very clear that due to the supreme court ruling they will no longer be requiring testing of anyone.
Folks, the Supreme Court ruled that OSHA, as a federal government agency, did not have the authority to require large employers to require vaccinations or testing for COVID. Businesses can still require vaccinations or testing as a condition of employment.
While that is correct, I wasn't speaking to that. I was stating that post the Supreme Court decision that SEAS has changed their policy and is no longer requiring testing or vaccinations.
Businesses can require vaccinations or testing only if it’s related to the job itself, which a lot of businesses could make an argument for with COVID. E.g. a business would have a hard time mandating Anthrax vaccines unless you were deploying employees to a potential conflict zone.
That us actually not true. In most state employers are free to mandate it even if it's not work related. Case and point several companies are mandating it for work from home employees.
I would think the argument a business could make is that a work from home employee could be severely sick for an extended period of time absent the Covid vaccine so its job related. However requiring employees to get something such as an Anthrax vaccine would have no applicability to most jobs and would have a hard time holding up as an appropriate employer mandate.
Given the competition for labor, I expect many service-oriented companies to follow Starbucks lead...
www.nytimes.com
Starbucks ends its plan to require worker vaccination and testing. (Published 2022)
The coffee company is among the first major employers to roll back plans after the Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration’s mandate for large businesses.
I feel like this is a great antidote to a lot of the negativity regarding the current state of BGW that this thread has been inundated with over the last few months. Busch Gardens Williamsburg has done a lot wrong lately, but good god are they investing throughout the park right now on smaller improvements.
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Is BGW at any sort of mandated capacity limit anymore? / Does anyone know if they themselves are limiting capacity?