P4ESC Statement for Senate HELP Committee on COVID Vaccination Efforts

The Partnership for Employer-Sponsored Coverage provided Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee with a short statement in anticipation of their hearing on COVID vaccination efforts with the nation’s leading public health advisors.

In the statement, which mirrors comments provided to House Energy and Commerce Committee Members for their COVID hearing, P4ESC reiterates employers’ commitment to the vaccination effort and requests assistance in seeking federal guidance for offering employees incentives to be vaccinated.

The full statement is available HERE and an excerpt is below.

Vaccinating Americans against COVID-19 and getting our economy back on track are goals we share with the Committee, Congress, President Biden, and the nation. As organizations representing small, medium, and large businesses employing millions of hardworking Americans, P4ESC members have a vested interest in ensuring that mass vaccination efforts succeed, and our nation’s economy moves forward.