Posted on 10/22/2021 10:39:46 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
More than 11,000 State of Ohio employees -- 22% of the state’s workforce -- will be paid $300 bonuses because at least 65% of their co-workers attested to getting coronavirus vaccinations, according to data released Wednesday.
Under an incentive program set up by Gov. Mike DeWine’s office, 37 of 56 participating state agencies, boards, and commissions met the threshold to have at least 65% of their workers sign forms attesting that they have received least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Melissa Vince, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Administrative Services.
Not surprisingly, agencies with smaller staffs were more likely to meet the 65% threshold. The only state agency with a 100% participation rate was the State Employee Relations Board -- which has 20 people on its payroll, according to OhioCheckbook.com.
Vince noted that that that number is only the number of workers who submitted a form to get the bonus. The number of state employees who are actually vaccinated, she stated, is likely higher.
For example, only 28.5% of the approximately 11,500 staffers at the state’s prisons agency, the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, submitted forms to get the bonus, state data shows. But 58.4% of DRC employees have received a coronavirus vaccine, according to department spokeswoman JoEllen Smith....
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Flu shot didn’t even make my arm sore....................
Challenge?? LOL! no... its a bribe using the taxpayers money!
So at least 1000 of them better hurry up and spend the $300...
Life is short for spikers...
That’s enough for them to fill their gas tanks a couple times.
Hard to believe that for $300.00 you would stick this stuff in your body!!
Will pay for a couple of aspirin when they go to ICU with COVID.
According to the article, you don’t have to take the shot, you merely have to “attest” that you’ve had the shot.
Porridge.
Only $300? People actually think that their lives aren’t worth any more than that?
they got em on the cheap
The legality of this kind of payment is questionable. I hope that someone sues.
What if people were being paid to not take the jab?
Apply to many other things, and one should see the problem.
Must be a real good vaccine if people have to be paid to take it. I’ve had a lot of shots over the years & wondering if there was any kind of reimbursement program?
So only 3.3 million wasted in Ohio for a mandate that is wrong on every front, more free no-load taxpayer dollars at work!
KJV says *pottage*.
OHIO PING!
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More than 11,000 State of Ohio workers to get $300 bonuses for meeting coronavirus vaccine challenge
Cleveland.com ^ | October 21, 2021 | Jeremy Pelzer
Posted on 10/22/2021, 1:39:46 PM by CheshireTheCat
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