The American airline Delta Airlines will, starting in November, demand a monthly fee of $200, equivalent to over SEK 1,700, from employees who are not fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
Delta is it The latest in a series of American companies trying to get their employees vaccinated against Covid-19 in various ways. Earlier this week, US President Joe Biden urged companies and authorities to require vaccination after Pfizer/Biontech received full approval from the FDA for the companies' corona vaccine.
Since then, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, CVS Health, United Airlines and Amtrak, among others, have introduced mandatory vaccination for all employees.
Delta's model of a fee, as well as mandatory mask wearing and recurring testing, for employees who do not want to get vaccinated, aims to protect the company from the "financial risk" of being forced to pay for employees who fall ill. According to Delta CEO Ed Bastian, the average cost to the company when an employee is hospitalized with corona is $ 40,000, equivalent to nearly 350,000 kronor.
According to an insider memorandum, as Financial Times reports, three-quarters of all Delta employees are already fully vaccinated. Ed Bastian wants to see that number rise to as close to 100 percent as possible.
He has also notified employees that starting September 30, only fully vaccinated employees will receive salary protection if they contract Covid-19 infections.
Source: di.se
