Vaccine Mandates at Work Set for Uptick After Full FDA Approval

More employers will likely require their workers to be inoculated against Covid-19 once federal regulators upgrade the vaccines from their current approval as emergency products, according to employment lawyers who counsel companies.

Pfizer Inc. and its partner BioNTech SE on Friday asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for full approval of their vaccine, which was the first to receive emergency authorization. Moderna Inc., which got emergency approval shortly after Pfizer, could soon follow suit. Johnson & Johnson is further behind.

Although employers generally have the authority to impose inoculation mandates—and enforce such policies under the threat of termination—the vaccines’ ...