Kaiser Permanente suspends more than 2,200 workers for ignoring vaccine mandate – By Brie Stimson (FOX Business) / Oct 6 2021
Employees will have until Dec. 1 to get the vaccine or they could be fired.
Kaiser Permanente has suspended more than 2,200 employees who have not yet gotten vaccinated, according to reports.
The workers, who make up between 1% and 2% of the health care company’s nationwide workforce, have been placed on unpaid administrative leave, according to FOX 2 in the Bay Area.
The company announced the vaccine mandate in August and said this week that employees will have until Dec. 1 to get the vaccine or they could lose their jobs.
Kaiser said when it announced the mandate 78% of employees had been vaccinated and it has risen to more than 92% since the beginning of October. “The number continues to grow,” the company said in a statement, according to KABC in Los Angeles.
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