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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 25, 2021

The Tennessee legislature will not be banning requirements for workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, at least during this session, WPLN reports. Yesterday, Rep. Rusty Grills, R-Newbern, took his bill, HB1147, off notice. The measure would have made it illegal to require employees to take the vaccine. Ultimately, the interests of “corporate freedom” won out against “individual liberty,” as one lawmaker put it. Grills also said that after talking to other members, he was concerned the proposal would conflict with the state’s “right-to-work” policies. Currently, federal law prohibits employers from forcing workers to get the vaccine because it has only been approved for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration.