Arkansas governor backs employer vaccine mandates
Source: The Hill
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) on Sunday defended employers mandating that employees get a COVID-19 vaccine, while saying he opposed such mandates by the federal and state governments.
"The states are sometimes coming in and saying, 'Employers should not have the ability to impose a vaccine requirement on their workers.' To me, that's the wrong direction as well. It's not practical in terms of creating that debate, but it's not principled either," Hutchinson said during "Meet the Press" on NBC.
"I am a defender of the employer's right to provide a healthy workplace. You would have just as many workers say, 'I don't want to work there because it's not a healthy workplace, because not everybody's going to be vaccinated.' The employers are in a tough position. They would have the prerogative to make those decisions and I support that," Hutchinson said.
Hutchinson noted, however, that he did not believe that governments at the federal and state level should be involved in making the request for individuals to get vaccinated.
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