To Mandate Or Not? Employers Get Urgent About Vaccinations – By Andrea Hsu (NPR) / Aug 17 2021
In mid-July, David Bronner of Dr. Bronner’s soaps looked at the vaccination rate among his workers. It had reached 60% — not bad, Bronner says, but not high enough given the rapid spread of the delta variant.
Bronner is CEO of Dr. Bronner’s, the natural soap company known for its counterculture roots and the ramblings covering its labels in tiny print.
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He was reluctant to impose a vaccine mandate on his 300 employees.
“We don’t want to create bad vibes and ill will,” he says.
Instead, he came up with an incentive he believes is too good to turn down: a $1,000 bonus for getting vaccinated.
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