{"id":100408,"date":"2021-03-16T07:32:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T11:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=100408"},"modified":"2021-03-16T06:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:35:15","slug":"bloomberg-ceos-become-vaccine-activists-as-back-to-office-push-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=100408","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) CEOs Become Vaccine Activists as Back-to-Office Push Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some chief executive officers are so eager for their employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 that they\u2019re granting workers time off or cash incentives to get shots.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S., retailer Lidl is giving its staff $200, while Aldi, Dollar General Corp. and Trader Joe\u2019s Co. are offering extra hours of pay. Online grocery delivery firm Instacart Inc. is providing a $25 stipend for workers and contractors. Yogurt makers Chobani LLC and Danone SA are offering as much as six hours of paid leave, and the French company says it will cover the cost of inoculation in countries where vaccines aren\u2019t free.<\/p>\n<p>Other companies are taking a harder line. U.K. handyman empire Pimlico Plumbers Ltd. has said it plans a \u201cno jab, no job\u201d policy for new members of its workforce. United Airlines wants to make shots mandatory, drawing concerns from unions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-03-15\/ceos-become-vaccine-activists-as-back-to-office-push-grows\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some CEOs are so eager for their employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 that they\u2019re granting workers time off or cash incentives to get shots <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gezz4NAmS8\">https:\/\/t.co\/Gezz4NAmS8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bloomberg (@business) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/business\/status\/1371495188900757514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some chief executive officers are so eager for their employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 that they\u2019re granting workers time off or cash incentives to get shots. In the U.S., retailer Lidl is giving its staff $200, while Aldi, Dollar<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=100408\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,589,149,168,104,597,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100411,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100408\/revisions\/100411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}