Health Advocate or Big Brother? Companies Weigh Requiring Vaccines.
It is a delicate decision balancing employee health and personal privacy. Some companies are sidestepping the issue by offering incentives to those who get shots.
Amtrak is paying employees two hours’ worth of regular wages per shot upon proof of the Covid-19 vaccination.Credit.Luke Sharrett for The New York Times
May 7, 2021
As American companies prepare to bring large numbers of workers back to the office in the coming months, executives are facing one of their most delicate pandemic-related decisions: Should they require employees to be vaccinated?
Take the case of United Airlines. In January, the chief executive, Scott Kirby, indicated at a company town hall that he wanted to require all of his roughly 96,000 employees to get coronavirus vaccines once they became widely available.
TV rewrote the rules during COVID, but are the changes here to stay?
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When it became clear early in the pandemic that it was safer to be outdoors than in, the creators of
Big Shot, a new Disney+ series being made with John Stamos, started rewriting scenes so they could be shot outside. Then new guidance emerged, which underscored that loading a cast and crew into buses and dispatching them to sites all over Los Angeles posed its own risks. So they rewrote their scripts again so scenes could be shot on sets.
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A group of Hollywood studios and entertainment industry unions have agreed to extend into the summer an agreement over working conditions and safety measures that has allowed the industry to rebound.
The various groups have signed an extension to June 30 of the return-to-work agreement first established last fall, said Jarryd Gonzales, spokesman for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
The current agreement between the alliance and unions including Teamsters Local 399 and SAG-AFTRA was set to expire April 30. It establishes compensation for actors and crew members who need to take time off for testing and quarantining, and outlines safety protocols.
Guilds, Studios Extend COVID-19 Safety Protocol Requirements Through June
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 23: In an aerial view from a drone, cars are lined up at the mass COVID-19 vaccination site (R) at Dodger Stadium (L), with the downtown skyline in the background, on February 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. The site, one of the largest vaccination sites in the country, reopened today along with five other city-run vaccination sites, after closures for several days due to delayed vaccine shipments caused by Midwest winter storms. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)