My manager has threatened to terminate me if I cannot complete vaccine shot in a week or two. Is this legal in NJ or MA?
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STT as one of the lowest paying companies, plus long working hours and heavy workload should treat employee better, unfortunately the company management are full of those grow up from a society where people treated very unfairly into different classes. Many od those guys were not educated on fairness and equality.
Thanks for all your reply. I went to office yesterday. Lost at least two more hours of working time in commute etc. Also my manager has been the only person of the whole department working in the office everyday. Still he is pretty much over 85% of the time on the phone and does not even have time to say hi. Wondering why he should just make all those phone calls at home. Looks like all the advise here are possible. He may be lonely or he is thinking to get ride of me without severance pay. STT culture has been totally massed up by managers like this guy.
After your second dose, you cannot return to office for at least 2 weeks. Meaning, it takes two weeks from your second shot to be considered fully vaccinated. I got my first jab and then had to wait three weeks for second jab and then had to wait two more weeks to be considered fully vaccinated. So if you are not vaccinated yet, you are looking at 7 or 8 weeks with Pfizer and moderna to be fully vaccinated and I think two weeks for J & J since they only require one shot. So you’re not gonna be back in the office until end of year at minimum if you haven’t already got first jab.
If you have an underlying medical condition and they are bullying you, you need to protect yourself and your family. People who have been fully vaccinated but have underlying conditions have gotten COVID. Getting vaccinated is NOT the silver bullet to business as usual. If the managers are lonely in the office, I suggest they get a pet like a dog to entertain them. Leave the rest of us alone to our judgement to stay safe and not leave ourselves open to an opportunity to be hospitalized and ventilated.
Obviously, your manager is a mean person. But it can also be a sign that your manager want to force you out without severance. Start recording all incidences you may encounter with your manager from now on. Your attorney will need it if there is a day for it.
Your manager is insane. Less than 10% of the employee just start going back to office and most of them are new hires. Even for those 10% only go to office once or twice a week. Also someone has reported caught COVID in office. By the way, does this manager work at office every day? Does he/she has his/her own office or he is sitting in a big room like other employee? Is this manager an immigrant from a less civilized place?
As so many STT employee complaining the rudeness, low pay and high workload due to the poor management and company culture. It is time to create a STT complaint board on all level of management at STT. Work place happiness is one of the most important barometer and benchmark not just for the company, but for the whole sociality of the nation.
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What most people do not realize is, HR works for the benefit of the company not the worker.
HR keeps a file on each employee who comes down to complain about something and then uses it latter on when its layoff time.
The only time HR gets involved is when the worker is going to bring a lawsuit and has a chance of winning it.
HR is for the company not the worker
Considering STT is one of the lowest paying financial firms with close to none bonus and annual increase, its management should not be so rude to employee.
Management in STT is so bully and intimidating.
No, they’d need HR to sign off on it. If you are in the midsts of getting vaccinated, then there is 0 chance they do anything before you are able to get your 2nd dose.
SS HR are a bunch of cowards. They are so lawsuit adverse I am shocked if they even called you to discuss it.
At least 6 in my group of 20 are openly refusing to get vaccinated and/or return to the office and our manager has not said or done a thing.
I went in to the JAB last week for the first time and there is no reason to have anyone back place is an absolute ghost town.
The recommended interval between two dose of vaccines is 3-4 weeks. Also, there is a list of pre-requisite to get a vaccine appointment, such as no headache, no cough, no fever .... in the past 14 days. There is no way to get two shots within two weeks.
If you are getting it not sure of the issue. Why is it taking 2 wks to get the shot though?
You may file a complaint to Labor Dept or consulting an attorney if you didn't refuse to take vaccine shots and good if you have set an vaccine appointment.