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Carhartt’s mandatory vaccine policy receives major backlash

Carhartt’s mandatory vaccine policy receives major backlash

Last week, the Supreme Court announced a decision that large companies do not have to enforce the vaccination-or-testing requirement proposed by the Biden Administration. However, the decision is ultimately left up to the employer whether or not to continue the vaccine requirement. And that has put Carhartt in a tight spot with its customer base. Carhartt has come under fire from its more conservative consumers after it decided to keep the vaccine mandate in place for its roughly 3,000 U.S.-based employees.

This week, #BoycottCarhartt started trending on Twitter after the announcement from Carhartt’s CEO Mark Valade. In an email sent it to workers a day after the Supreme Court’s decision, Valade emphasizes workplace safety.

β€œWe put workplace safety at the very top of our priority list and the Supreme Court’s recent ruling doesn’t impact that core value. We, and the medical community, continue to believe vaccines are necessary to ensure a safe working environment for every associate and even perhaps their households,” the message said.

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"I don't think it's a sustainable strategy to ask people to get boosters of the same vaccine every two months or three months. People just aren't going to do it.," he says. "I myself felt awful after I got the second of the third shots."

Perhaps, instead, the goal may need to shift from stopping infections to making sure everyone is protected against severe disease over the long-term.

"Could we get to the point where public health officials recommend a shot once a year," Bhattacharya says. "I think that's fairly likely. Now, whether everyone will absolutely need that shot to prevent severe disease each year, that's a different question, and we'll have to wait for the data. I think it's possible that yearly shots won't be absolutely essential for everyone."