Like many employers over the past year, LeMoyne-Owen College has felt the whiplash of changing vaccination rules.
Three times in the past six months, the historically Black institution in Memphis had to change its guidance, first requiring employees to get at least one COVID-19 shot in August 2021, and most did. A few months later, the Tennessee legislature effectively banned employers from instituting vaccine requirements. The college complied.
By the end of 2021, however, their guidance changed, this time as the federal government implemented its own requirements on workplaces with more than 100 employees. Then, once again, the vaccine requirement was dropped when the Supreme Court in January said the administration’s rule could not be enforced, and the administration withdrew the rule.
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