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" "We encourage team members to go to their managers or other leaders with concerns but also have a compliance hotline available for anyone who would like to raise concerns anonymously," the statement continued. In addition, organizers pointed to what they described as problems with One Medical's vaccine rollout.
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Newsom a legal principle that threatens to upend over a century of legal precedent recognizing the authority of state governments to ensure publichealth by mandating vaccines. The former actually further a state’s interest in promoting publichealth, unlike religious exemptions, which subvert this goal.
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