Alaska Airlines Airbus A320-214 reaches Los Angeles global Airport on September 15, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
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Alaska Airlines will need unvaccinated workers to be checked routinely for Covid-19 however the Seattle- based provider stopped short of mandating vaccines, a policy it stated it was thinking about last month.
Alaska stated workers who share evidence of vaccination byOct 15 will get a $200 reward. Three- quarters of the airline company’s approximately 20,000 workers are immunized up until now.
Airline vaccine policies for their personnel differ. United Airlines will need its approximately 68,000- individual U.S. labor force to be immunized bySept 27, disallowing spiritual and medical exemptions. Delta Air Lines last month revealed it prepares to enforce a $200 additional charge for medical insurance coverage for unvaccinated workers in November.
Alaska Airlines stated it will no longer cover the pay of unvaccinated workers for Covid direct exposure or infection. Unvaccinated personnel need to likewise go to “a vaccine education program.”
New works with need to be immunized to operate at Alaska Airlines or subsidiary Horizon Air, likewise a requirement to start work at Delta.
