[D66] [JD: 160] These rotten US companies think they own workers

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Here are the companies requiring workers to get vaccinated: •Google
•Facebook •Netflix •Walmart •BlackRock •Morgan Stanley •Saks Fifth
Avenue •The Washington Post •Ascension Health •Lyft •Uber •Twitter •The
Walt Disney Corporation



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  Here are the companies requiring workers to get vaccinated

Oriana Gonzalez
4 minutes
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Life for the unvaccinated could get more difficult as bosses
increasingly move to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory.

*The big picture: *The federal Government in May said
<https://www.axios.com/employers-coronavirus-covid-vaccine-require-incentives-e8f5426e-62c5-40cd-9075-86fe72e8dc84.html>
that it is legal for companies to require employees to get vaccinated
for coronavirus.

*By the numbers: *64% of Americans said
<https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-vaccines-mandates-government-policy-dd087a81-234b-490e-863c-6ab829ef135a.html>
in June or July that they would support federal, state or local
governments requiring everyone to get vaccinated, according to a survey
<https://covidstates.org/> conducted by the COVID States Project.

*Our thought bubble, *via Axios' Caitlin Owens: Many vaccinated
Americans appear to be losing patience with people who are still
unvaccinated, which will probably make them all the more tolerant of
mandates.


          The companies:

*Google *CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email
<https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/vaccines-and-our-return-to-office-plans>
to employees announcing that those going back to the office needed to be
vaccinated. The company is also extending its work-from-home policy
through Oct. 18.

*Facebook *said that anyone going back to work in their U.S. campuses
must be vaccinated.
<https://twitter.com/Dani_Lever/status/1420486108769619970?s=20>

*Netflix *is requiring that the casts for all of its U.S. productions be
vaccinated, as well as everyone who comes in contact with them, Deadline
reports
<https://deadline.com/2021/07/netflix-to-require-covid-vaccinations-for-all-actors-on-us-productions-1234801577/>.

*Walmart *Chief Executive Doug McMillon said that the retailer's
corporate workers and managers must be vaccinated, according to a memo
obtained by CNBC
<https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/walmart-tells-corporate-staff-managers-they-must-have-vaccine-by-october.html>.


*BlackRock *says that only fully vaccinated workers are allowed to
return to the office, a company spokesperson told CNN
<https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/business/companies-vaccine-mandate/index.html>.


*Morgan Stanley* is prohibiting all unvaccinated staff and clients from
entering its headquarters in New York, CNN notes, citing a memo sent to
workers.

*Saks Fifth Avenue *is requiring that all workers be inoculated, per the
New York Times
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/business/saks-return-to-office.html>.
The company says it will be returning to in person work in September.

*The Washington Post *informed
<https://twitter.com/travislylesnews/status/1420082393881489412?s=20>
its employees earlier this week that it will require all of them —
including contractors and guests who wish to enter the newspaper's
offices — to show that they have received the vaccine.

  * Publisher Fred Ryan said the requirement will be "a condition of
    employment" starting on Sept. 13.

*Ascension Health, *one of the largest private health care systems in
the U.S., said
<https://www.ascension.org/News/News-Articles/2021/07/27/15/59/Ascension-to-Require-COVID-19-Vaccination>
that all employees must be vaccinated.

*Lyft *employees who work in the company's offices must be vaccinated as
of Aug. 2, according to an email shared with CNN.

*Uber *CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said that employees wishing to return to
the office must be fully vaccinated. He added that people going into the
office must also wear masks, regardless of vaccination status, Insider
reports
<https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-email-uber-ceo-vaccination-requirement-employees-returning-to-office-2021-7>.

*Twitter *had been requiring that employees get vaccinated, but earlier
this week, the company said it would shutting down its offices in New
York and San Francisco due to the recent increase in coronavirus cases.**

*Walmart *CEO Doug McMillon sent a memo
<https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2021/07/30/walmart-announces-covid-19-vaccination-policy-for-campus-office-associates>
to employees saying that corporate workers must be vaccinated by Oct. 4,
"unless they have an approved exception." New hires will also be
required to be inoculated.

*The Walt Disney Corporation *will be mandating vaccines
<https://twitter.com/sarafischer/status/1421207639627866120?s=20> for
all its "salaried and non-union hourly employees in the U.S." All new
hires will also be expected to be vaccinated.

  * "Employees who aren’t already vaccinated and are working on-site
    will have 60 days from today to complete their protocols and any
    employees still working from home will need to provide verification
    of vaccination prior to their return, with certain limited
    exceptions," the company said.

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