Job Eliminated after Acquisition

Yes

 

Yes, FDA approval on vaccine makes enforcement possible. No way out, if you don't want the vaccine then leave before you have to take the jab.

 

You have a choice, not a mandate.
You an get vaxxed and get money.

You can refuse to get vaxxed and get axed.

Choose wisely, mate.

The company is free to do many things.

The company is free to follow the first decision.

As my grandfather was fond of saying, "If you ain't got no pull, you gotta eat lots of bull!"

 

Yes.

This question is sort of hard to answer because of the way you wrote it. But yes, they can rescind the layoff. But no, they can't make them stay.

 

Unless you have a contract of employment (including a collective bargaining agreement between your employer and a labor union of which you're a member), you're not owed any retention/severance and are subject to termination at any time. So...yes.

Yes.

No. Slavery and involuntary servitude have been illegal for nearly 160 years.

Yes (see above).

 

This isn't so much a legal question as an economic cost/benefit analysis question.

Get the vaccine = stay employed for another two weeks + receive severance + retain eligibility for unemployment.

Don't get the vaccine = get let go early + no severance + potentially lose eligibility for unemployment.

That said, there are jobs going begging right now so you might be able to pick something up in the next few weeks, though now that the FDA has approved a vaccine a lot more employers are mandating it.

 

Courts are already upholding mandatory vaccinations. Three that I read about recently. Probably more that I don't know about and likely many more to come.

 

Yes. The company does not have to give you a severance and when it does provide one, you get it on the terms the company sets for it.

The company can't force anyone to stay. But the company can say its rescinds the layoff and you can stay in the job if you get vaccinated. If you don't get vaccinated, the company can fire you and not give you the severance.

The covid-19 vaccinations have proven to be quite safe and pretty effective, too. And as time goes on more and more places are going to require vaccinations to get jobs, go to restaurants, theaters, etc., and do lots of other things. It's your choice whether to get it, but I don't see any downside to getting it, and a lot inconveniences for those who don't get it.