CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The Illinois Chamber of Commerce said the majority of its members don’t plan to require their staff to get vaccinated, according to the results from a survey taken last month.
Of the 335 businesses that responded to the survey, Todd Maisch, the chamber’s president and CEO, said 69% never closed or brought back employees as soon as the state lifted mitigations.
"They want to return as much as we can to some normalcy and some predictability in the workplace," Maisch told WBBM Newsradio.
The numbers are almost as high when it comes to businesses not requiring vaccines.
"There is real resistance, more resistance than I would have thought, to employees being mandated to be vaccinated," Maisch said.
The downstate heavy responses also found over half of small businesses are struggling to reopen because of labor shortages, something Maisch said he hopes the return to in-person school and daycare will help alleviate.
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