‘No Jab, No Job’ on the Rise: Worker Rights, Risks Explained (1)

More unvaccinated workers will be fired this year for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine, and they don’t have much legal recourse to fight back.

Citigroup Inc. said it would begin terminating workers at the end of the month for failing to comply with its inoculation mandate, joining the ranks of companies like Alphabet’s Google, Inc. and others that said they’d move to dismiss vaccine holdouts.

Employers have leeway, generally, to issue such mandates, so long as they account for religious and disability accommodations. Thus far, private companies have largely been successful in defending such policies in court.

These mandates ...