Employers across the US are now confronted with the same question of whether to fire workers who refuse to get vaccinated, a dilemma that carries new urgency as the rapidly spreading delta variant leads to a surge in hospitalisations among the unvaccinated and threatens to stall the economic recovery
Tiara Felix, a lab worker at Metro Optics Eyeworker in the Bronx, at work on Aug. 2, 2021. She said she is skeptical about getting vaccinated and would likely quit if the company forced her to do so.
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