CNN fired its three employees who came to the office unvaccinated
The American television company CNN fired its three employees who came to the news network's office unvaccinated. This is one of the first cases in the United States where a company fired its employees for violating the company's internal vaccination policies.
"In this respect, we have no mercy on the workers, we apply zero tolerance. All three offenders were terminated in our country, "commented Jeff Zucker, the company's president, for the Washington Post.
As of May this year, U.S. law allows a company to require coronavirus vaccination from its employees if they come to the company's workplace.
Working in the office is not currently mandatory at CNN. Employees can still work from home. All CNN employees are expected to return to their offices during October. To date, according to the company's president, about a third of all employees have returned.
Contrary to recent plans, the company has postponed a full return to office for several weeks due to the growing number of people infected in the United States. However, like CNN, other American companies have postponed the return. Banks such as Wells Fargo and US Bank, for example, announced the postponement of taking office, and he also met the Amazon online store, which postponed the return of its employees to offices until next year.
However, other companies in the US will also demand vaccinations from their employees, including Google and Facebook. This obligation awaits workers as soon as their offices are fully reopened. Airlines such as Delta or United Airlines then require vaccinations after new employees join the company.
However, US federal employees are in a similar situation. President
Joe Biden ordered them to present evidence to their boss that they had already been vaccinated. Otherwise, they must have a veil in the workplace and be subject to mandatory testing.
According to
Johns Hopkins University, up to a thousand people become infected with the new coronavirus in the United States every hour in recent weeks. It is mainly the delta mutation that spreads here. Currently, more than half of the population has the first dose of vaccine there. According to available data, people who did not get vaccinated against covid-19 mainly die there.