Alaska Airways Airbus A320-214 arrives at Los Angeles worldwide Airport on September 15, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
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Alaska Airways would require unvaccinated workers to be examined commonly for Covid-19 however the Seattle-based service stopped wanting mandating vaccines, a coverage it mentioned it was contemplating final month.
Alaska mentioned workers who share proof of vaccination by Oct. 15 will obtain a $200 bonus. Three-quarters of the airline’s roughly 20,000 workers are vaccinated thus far.
Airline vaccine insurance policies for his or her workers fluctuate. United Airways would require its roughly 68,000-person U.S. workforce to be vaccinated by Sept. 27, barring spiritual and medical exemptions. Delta Air Traces final month introduced it plans to impose a $200 surcharge for medical insurance coverage for unvaccinated workers in November.
Alaska Airways mentioned it’ll now not cowl the pay of unvaccinated workers for Covid publicity or an infection. Unvaccinated workers should additionally attend “a vaccine schooling program.”
New hires have to be vaccinated to work at Alaska Airways or subsidiary Horizon Air, additionally a requirement to start work at Delta.
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