Ohio AG says businesses requiring COVID vaccination is legal, but unsure if it’s ethical

CLEVELAND — If you haven’t noticed, the speed of business reopening varies depending on where you go.

One hot button topic as of late: whether or not private businesses can or should require vaccinations for its employees.

News 5 brought the issue up to Ohio’s top legal authority: Attorney General Dave Yost.

“Private businesses get to do what private businesses want to do,” he explained. “If they don’t want to do business with you, the marketplace will react to that.”

Yost, who is vaccinated, opposes the now-politicized idea of “vaccine passports,” but argues that private businesses have the right to mandate vaccinations for employees or customers.

Whether or not he believes private businesses should mandate vaccinations, is a different answer.

“I think there’s an ethical problem when you take something cleared only for emergency use and require someone to do it,”he said. “I’m not sure about the ethics, but that doesn’t make it…

Read more…