Overall useful info.
>According to the EEOC, coronavirus testing satisfies this standard because infected employees pose a direct threat to the safety and welfare of others.
With respect to my particular case, I've been in a research unit with no positive tests in 8 months. We do daily forehead temperature checks and other wellness reporting that already drives me up a fucking wall. To have to take time out of my day, when I'm feeling just fine, to go somewhere (crowded, too) to get a test is just them seeing how compliant everyone will be to everchanging and whimsical demands. People still think CoVid is fucking tuberculosis and it's transmitted just by touching something. I'd suggest these people are just stupid, but (((they))) know exactly what (((they))) are doing.
Were I you I'd contact a (((lawyer))) who specializes in labor law. Even if you lose the job - hell, maybe because you lose the job - you could likely bring suit against them and have cause for hand rubbing.
There are a number of reasons to follow through with a suit, but there is one main thing I won't do, where others tend to buckle. They settle. If I do this, there will be no settlement. There will be a case, it will be closed, and it will go into the legal record as precedent. I'm not after money - I'm after justice; and I'd rather spread that around to my other affected brothers.
Just an update - the administration doubled down today, but my supervisor and several others in my position are at least making noise in response to the mandate. I'll find out Monday, I guess, what the outcome is. I went on an email saving spree with timestamps and all the goodies before I left today.
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