Starbucks ends its plan to require worker vaccination and testing. [View all]
Source: New York Times
Starbucks ends its plan to require worker vaccination and testing.
By Emma Goldberg
Jan. 19, 2022
Updated 2:18 p.m. ET
Starbucks will no longer require its U.S. employees to be vaccinated or submit to weekly coronavirus testing, following last week’s Supreme Court decision blocking the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test rule for large businesses.
The Supreme Court’s 6-to-3 decision struck down the White House’s sweeping effort to enlist large employers in its effort to battle Covid-19, but it did not prohibit businesses from keeping their own vaccine requirements in place.
John Culver, the president of North America and chief operating officer for Starbucks, announced the change in a memo to staff members on Tuesday. ... “I want to emphasize that we continue to believe strongly in the spirit and intent of the mandate,” Mr. Culver wrote.
More than 90 percent of Starbucks workers in the United States have disclosed their vaccination status, according to the memo, and “the vast majority” are fully vaccinated. Starbucks, which has nearly 9,000 company-owned stores in the United States, has about 200,000 domestic employees.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/business/starbucks-vaccine-mandate.html
Hat tip, Joe.My.God.
Starbucks Drops “Vax Or Test” Mandate For Employees
January 19, 2022
https://www.joemygod.com/2022/01/starbucks-drops-vax-or-test-mandate-for-employees/
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