Vaccine Mandate
With a shortage of health care workers before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, things have gone from bad to worse. URMC said the have loss about 300 employees across the board due to New York State’s vaccine mandate. With some hospitals are running anywhere from 20 to 35% vacancy rates. Some believe Even if Gov. Kathy Hochul lifted […]
Yesterday, the US Army announced that they will begin discharging soldiers who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine. According to the Army, they stated that they will “immediately begin separating Soldiers from the service” who refuse to be vaccinated or who don’t have an approved or pending request for exemption. As of the end of January, 96% […]
Yesterday, a federal court in Texas blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for federal workers. The Biden administration’s mandate has been set in place since November and it is expected that they will appeal this block. The mandate first comes from back in September, when President Biden announced that he would require the federal workforce […]
Nike and Columbia Sportswear says all unvaccinated employees will be terminated. Unvaccinated employees with medical or religion exemption will not be terminated. Nike put in place a vaccine mandate back in October of last year. Nike is taking action with terminations on January 15th and Columbia Sportswear is pushing for February 1st. Click Here To […]
During a briefing yesterday, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the state broke a record with 23,391 new COVID-19 cases over the past weekend. This data is four times the number of cases we saw last week. In her briefing, Governor Hochul stated that other countries that have experienced a surge of omicron cases saw case […]
At the beginning of the new year, President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for companies with 100 or more employees will begin. According to the data, the new mandate is estimated to affect over 100 million Americans and businesses, including some right here in Rochester. Yesterday, Wegmans, along with health and city officials, got together to […]
U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley in Knoxville has limited the ability, for now, for the nonprofit US lab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to place employees on unpaid leave who have previously receive exemptions for the vaccine requirement. The federal judge issued the temporary restraining order Friday which prevents placing employees on indefinite unpaid leave or […]
United Airlines must put their upcoming vaccination mandate to a halt as a federal judge in Texas ordered the airline to do. This order is to temporarily halt its plan to put unvaccinated employees on unpaid leave if they have requested an exemption from the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Six United Airlines employees filed a […]
American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and Jet Blue will now be joining the club, alongside United, in requiring their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. This announcement goes along with the Biden administration’s pressure on major US carriers to require the shots. Employees can seek waivers from the vaccines on medical or religious exemptions. American Airlines […]
The upcoming deadline for healthcare workers being vaccinated against COVID-19 is vastly approaching, and an alarm is being sounded in Monroe County as it approaches. On September 27th, which is next Monday, with rare exception, employees at hospitals and nursing homes who have not had a covid vaccine won’t be allowed to work. Due to […]