That’s enough: Delta Air Lines is taking advantage of the damn health plan to vaccinate employees. If you want to work on their planes and have their health insurance, you will have to get hit or pay $ 200 a month.
In a employee note posted today, Delta CEO Ed Bastian framed the decision as a safety deposit box for possible medical bills related to covid-19, which, oddly enough, could be a nicer argument for people responding. against the mandates of the commons.
“The average stay at COVID-19 hospital has cost Delta $ 50,000 per person,” Bastian said. “This surcharge will be needed to address the financial risk that the decision not to vaccinate is creating for our company.” He added that all Delta employees hospitalized due to covid-19 were not vaccinated. The company will begin charging the rate on Nov. 1, which has plenty of time to get two doses.
As of Sept. 30, Delta will also only offer covid protection to vaccinated employees suffering from covid-19, “in accordance with state and local laws,” Bastian wrote.
But elsewhere, the note does not shy away from the obvious, namely that it is a necessary health protocol to prevent a deadly virus from spreading to the 459 destinations where travel is open. Bastian tactfully pointed to “variant B.1.617.2” (variant, ahem, delta), noting that the rise in deaths and related hospitalizations is clearly correlated with the unvaccinated population. Unvaccinated employees will be required to wear masks “In the Delta configuration,” which expands its interior mask requirement from customer-oriented areas to employee-only areas, such as rest rooms. On September 12, these employees will also have to take weekly tests of covid-19.
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In May, Delta has already begun requiring Bastian noted that new contracts should be vaccinated and that 75% of its workforce is already inoculated.
Unvaccinated employees would not find much room for a growing number of other airlines, including Units or Hawaii Airlines, which will be adapted to religious and health exemptions, but which require negative results. Border it also requires periodic testing for unvaccinated employees. Amtrak, bank of america, Disney world, i CVS are among many other important entrepreneurs with similar policies, of which Fortune maintains one execution list.
Employee claims have come in and out of the courts. In June, a federal judge released a lawsuit filed by employees of a Texas hospital who had done so compared the vaccine forces hateful Nazi experiments, and calls the argument “reprehensible.” Prolonged legal war looks like inevitable.