Enough is enough : Delta Air Lines is leveraging the damn health care program to get employees immunize . If you want to work on their planes , and you ’re on their wellness insurance , you ’ll have to get the dig or pay $ 200 a month .
In anemployee memosent today , Delta CEO Ed Bastian framed the conclusion as a security down payment for likely covid-19 - come to aesculapian bill , which oddly might be a more toothsome literary argument for hoi polloi railing against commie authorization .
“ The medium infirmary stoppage for COVID-19 has be Delta $ 50,000 per mortal , ” Bastian say . “ This surcharge will be necessary to address the fiscal risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company . ” He added that every Delta employee who ’s been hospitalise due to covid-19 was not immunise . The companionship will start up want the fee on November 1st , which is plenty of time to get two State Department .
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Effective September 30th , Delta will also only offer covid salary protection to immunized employees suffering from covid-19 , “ in compliance with state and local natural law , ” Bastian wrote .
But elsewhere , the memoranda does n’t shy away from the obvious , which is that this is a wellness communications protocol necessary to keep a virulent virus from spreading around to those of its 459 destinations where travel is subject . Bastian tactfully point to the “ B.1.617.2 variation ” ( the , ahem , delta form ) , noting that the ear of related to deaths and hospitalizations intelligibly correlate with the unvaccinated population . Unvaccinated employees will be forced to fatigue masks “ in Delta preferences , ” which stretch forth its indoor mask prerequisite from customer - face areas to employee - only areas like recess rooms . By September 12th , those employees will also require to take weekly covid-19 mental testing .
Back in May , Delta already startedrequiringnew hire to be vaccinated , and 75 % of its workforce is already inoculated , Bastian said .
Unvaccinated employees would n’t find much wiggle way at a growing number of other airlines includingUnitedorHawaii Airlines , which will accommodate religious and health exemptions but demand negative trial run results . Frontieris also mandating regular examination for unvaccinated employee . Amtrak , Bank of America , Disney World , andCVSare among legion other major employer with similar policies , of which Fortune is keeping arunning list .
Employee lawsuit have rolled in and out of court . In June , a federal judgetossed outa suit brought by employee of a Texas infirmary who’dcomparedvaccine mandates to heinous Nazi experiment , calling the argument “ criminal . ” prolong sound warfareseemsinevitable .
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