With the Biden administration moving to require large employers to require COVID-19 vaccinations and require weekly testing for unvaccinated workers, the latest KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor report finds a quarter (25%) of workers say their employer has a vaccine requirement, up from 9% in June.
About a fifth (21%) of workers say that they want their employer to require vaccinations even though they don’t, while about half (51%) say they don’t want their employer to require it.
Despite widespread news reports of employees leaving their jobs due to workplace vaccine mandates, 5% of unvaccinated adults (1% of all adults) say they left a job because an employer required them to get vaccinated. A larger share (24%) of adults say they know someone who has left a job due to a vaccine mandate, with Republicans about twice as likely as Democrats to say this (32% vs. 14%). CONTINUED
Kaiser Family Foundation
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