Your Evening Briefing: More Companies Demand Workers Get Vaccinated
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An employee checks the vaccination record of a customer at a 24 Hour Fitness gym in San Francisco on Aug. 20. San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to require proof of full vaccination against Covid-19 for a variety of high-risk indoor activities.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergUsing formal federal approval as cover, a growing number of U.S. employers are imposing coronavirus vaccine mandates on workers, increasingly limiting the places people who have shunned shots can work, shop and play. In New York, Goldman Sachs required bankers prove they’d been vaccinated. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University will demand vaccination or negative Covid-19 tests to see a game at Tiger Stadium. CVS has mandated shots for corporate employees and those working with patients. And fossil fuel companies Chevron and Hess added requirements for employees on oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Delta Air Lines even said it would levy a $200 monthly charge on workers who refuse to protect themselves. And the list goes on. — David E. Rovella
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