United Airlines Employees With COVID-19 Vaccine Exemptions To Be Placed On Leave
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The carrier said it would need time to determine how unvaccinated employees "might interact with our customers and their vaccinated co-workers."
United Airlines announced on Wednesday that it will place employees who receive exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on temporary leaves of absence beginning next month. “Given the dire statistics … we can no longer allow unvaccinated people back into the workplace until we better understand how they might interact with our customers and their vaccinated co-workers,” Kirk Limacher, the airline’s vice president of human resources, wrote in a memo obtained by Axios. Employees with religious exemptions will be placed on voluntary unpaid leave and those with medical exemptions will be placed on temporary medical leave. Both policies will go into effect on Oct. 2 and remain in place until the carrier figures out how to reintegrate them into its workforce.More Related News