Staff members claim “Redeploy Georgetown” program forces them to become health screeners against their will
In a letter to administrators published on Jan. 26, Georgetown staff members accused the university of violating its Just Employment Policy by forcing employees to become public health screeners for Spring 2021 and taking away health benefits from those who refused to be repositioned.
These employees were selected as part of the university’s Redeploy Georgetown program, which seeks to reassign existing staff to new roles involving “visitor registration, wellness screening and perimeter access support” during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, staff members allege that Georgetown’s Human Resources (HR) department has used the threat of unpaid leave to coerce employees into positions where they are inadequately trained and vulnerable to COVID-19.
ongoing and fast-moving developments of the story, one of the very first questions from reporters was do you have any idea how the shooter got into the building? how could the shooter access this high-security building at the navy yard? authorities at one of those press conferences, as soon as they were asked that, said they do not know, and it remains one of the many unanswered questions still tonight. joining us now is nbc news national security producer courtney kuby. thanks for being here tonight. i know it s been an exhausting day. thanks for having me. this building where the shooting took place, the pentagon is part of your beat. you ve done a lot of reporting on military institutions in washington. tell us about this site at the navy yard. this is the headquarters of the sea systems command. it is, right. it s the navy sea systems command building, where the shooting took place today. so, basically, you know, you mentioned there s about 3,000 people that work in that buil
reporters was do you have any idea how the shooter got into the building? how could the shooter access this high-security building at the navy yard? authorities at one of those press conferences, as soon as they were asked that, said they do not know, and it remains one of the many unanswered questions still tonight. joining us now is nbc news national security producer courtney kuby. thanks for being here tonight. i know it s been an exhausting day. thanks for having me. this building where the shooting took place, the pentagon is part of your beat. you ve done a lot of reporting on military institutions in washington. tell us about this site at the navy yard. this is the headquarters of the sea systems command. it is, right. it s the navy sea systems command building, where the shooting took place today. so, basically, you know, you mentioned there s about 3,000 people that work in that building. those people themselves have a building access badge. they have something that the
people that work in that building. those people themselves have a building access badge. they have something that they go through a turnstile, they swipe a badge, they show an officer their i.d. so, there s a picture on there. they have to show a visual confirmation to an officer that they are who they are swiping in to be. and then they can access the building. well, you also mentioned visitors. basically, anyone who has a common access card, which is a card that most members of the military, many d.o.d., department of defense officials have, if they have that card, they can access the navy yard and navy sea systems command as long as they show that and go through a visitors entrance, and they get magged, they get swiped, they go through security, but they can actually access the building with their common access card. we don t know yet about whether or not this young man s employment as a civilian government contractor working in i.t., his apparent security clearance we re learnin