[OutsiderFan]

On the employer mandate issue, teejers is correct. At-will employment seems to apply. Employers can hire whoever they want - as long as they aren't choosing based on gender, age, appearance, sex orientation, religious affiliation - and they can let people go who don't get vaccinated too. How would it make any sense to prevent an employer from protecting its employees and business by forcing them to employ unvaccinated people that put them at risk? 

The only reason the sports leagues aren't mandating vaccinations is because of CBA issues. Higher education has same justification to require vaccinations as employers do.

But it seems the odds are high the sports leagues will pay a price for not working out some kind of agreement with unions to require vaccinations and/or penalize players who don't get vaccinated.

[OutsiderFan]

On the employer mandate issue, teejers is correct. At-will employment seems to apply. Employers can hire whoever they want - as long as they aren't choosing based on gender, age, appearance, sex orientation, religious affiliation - and they can let people go who don't get vaccinated too. How would it make any sense to prevent an employer from protecting its employees and business by forcing them to employ unvaccinated people that put them at risk? 

The only reason the sports leagues aren't mandating vaccinations is because of CBA issues. Higher education has same justification to require vaccinations as employers do.

But it seems the odds are high the sports leagues will pay a price for not working out some kind of agreement with unions to require vaccinations and/or penalize players who don't get vaccinated.