Posted on 11/25/2021 5:16:11 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
Newport News shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls reverses their position on the vaccine mandate and claims they misinterpreted the federal requirement. After further consultations with the federal government, the shipbuilder now says the vaccine mandate doesn’t apply. “This recent information is different from what we understood to be the government’s and the Navy’s intent,” the company said.
Huntington Ingalls previously said all of its 25,000 workers would need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a “condition of continued employment” due to the vaccine mandate for federal workers and contractors. [Media Link] However, Newport News Shipbuilding President Jennifer Boykin said in a Facebook update Thursday that Huntington Ingalls clarified their Navy contracts “don’t include a vaccine mandate at this time.”
President and CEO Mike Petters issued a message to employees Nov. 16 indicating that the government’s Jan. 4, 2022, deadline for vaccination is suspended. The message also clarified that after considerable work with the Navy to meet the intent of the mandate, our Navy contracts with Newport News Shipbuilding do not include a vaccine mandate requirement at this time.
This recent information is different from what we understood to be the government’s and the Navy’s intent. As a result of what we know today, some of the related mandate policies and processes will now change. Because employee safety continues to be our top priority, other COVID-related policies will not change.
Here’s what is changing: • COVID-19 vaccination is not required as a condition of employment for current or leased employees. • Employees who applied for a religious or medical exemption will be contacted in writing with additional clarification. • Shipbuilders who opted to submit for retirement or to resign as a result of the federal mandate have the option to request reversal of their decision. – For those who have started the retirement process, please contact the HII Benefits Center for more information. – For employees who notified management or Human Resources of plans to resign, please talk with your immediate supervisor if your plans change. Supervisors should contact their Human Resources business partner for guidance. • Offsite employees will be required to follow the guidance provided by the work location. • Subcontractors do not need to be fully vaccinated.
There are others on the base who haven't received the jab, to be sure; at least 50 military and dozens more civilian, but at least in my area, there are only two. Heck, if you really want to boil it down, I'm the only one in my entire squadron standing against the mandate.
So I agree, "If one doesn't stand for something, one is liable to fall for anything."
Can't wait to see how my Thanksgiving get together with family goes today. I've already been asked by my physical assistant sister if I've been "vaccinated," to which I said no. Fun times ahead!
:-)
So, do you want those submarines or would you rather enforce your ridiculous vaccine policy?
They didn’t define that so he’s doing it on their time. He goes to a free test place but did buy a handful of home tests just in case.
/echo
When does the madness end?
Is your son expected to do this for 40 years?
If the masculine exit stage left, the effeminate win by default. If most of the maculine exit stage left, but some of the masculine stand pat, the effeminate know that they still stand to be defeated unless and until the masculine minority is isolated, cravenly attacked, and otherwise shamed until they finally retreat from the field and cede victory to the effeminate.
It is at this time when the decisive move may end up being made by the masculine.
If the masculine, who now appear relatively small in number or scattered, stand pat rather than retreat and quit, the effeminate, by now in high dudgeon because completely unchaste, will not infrequently choose raise their efforts to stamp out the masculine to a fever pitch.
Their tactics become more unjust. The question then is whether or not law and order still prevails. If so, the masculine can eventually prevail if they “hang in there.” If not, the masculine who try to “hang in there” are martyred and the effeminate survive to write the history books.
Perhaps that was the point of these employer mandates all along...
We’re hoping it only goes through January or so. More American patriots need to rise up
Never be “pressured” to take something that is dangerous to your health and could easily kill you.
Even hyenas wouldn’t do that and we are supposedly smarter humans.
“I have great empathy for the employees who are in their late 30’s and have worked hard to advance the corporate ladder in their 15 year career and now face the choice of starting over in a new career or taking the vaxx.”
That’s where I’m at. Will turn 38 next month, almost 15.5 years in at the company, stay-at-home wife + 6 kids.
My company has thus far encouraged the vaccine but has not been pushy. They’ve stated they still prefer to allow employees to choose.
IF it ever comes to the point where testing, WFH, exemptions, etc. were fully exhausted and I HAD to have detailed conversations with HR, I plan to write a letter fully documenting the OSHA violations I have witnessed in my current role. And how I tried to prevent them. And how I raised them to management. And how management— through lack of funding or indifference— has continued to allow them. And how ironic it would be to fire me under the pretense of avoiding an OSHA fine, when I can detail load$ of fines which would come through one anonymous call.
Fortunately, I wrote an exhaustive document pre-Covid stating in no uncertain terms that our operation was in a state of non-compliance. I updated it this Spring and changed the wording to “our (software) system causes direct violations of federal and state law.”
I am certain dementia Joe’s strategy all along was to rattle the sabers for a few months before publishing the rule, so as to create a defacto mandate from employers. This gave them a few extra months of more vaccines, because they knew it would be shot down shortly after implementation.
I’m not too worried, but am prepared.
With HII the navy needs them more than they need the navy. Your son’s employer probably needs the feds more than the feds need them.
Isn’t that the lamest excuse ever? I wonder who in the company dreamed that up and who approved it.
It’s troubling that even a major defense contractor cannot tell the truth. They should have “explained”: “For our nation’s security, it is imperative that we keep building our contracted-for materiel. We cannot do that if we fire 40% of our team. Therefore, we are continuing employment of our people, vax or no vax. Let’s Go Brandon!”
Uh-huh.
These people are exclusive builders of aircraft carriers, Arleigh-Burke destroyers, and are only 1 of 2 places building attack subs.
Even the idiot ideologue left woke generals can see the problem in angering these people.
Agree.
Hopefully this company keeps doing the right thing.“
You’re not doing the right thing if you’re doing a one eighty and necessarily making believe that you’re not. They’re still spineless pigs.
“…there” are martyred and the effeminate survive to write the history books.“
No they don’t. They’ll be to busy taking it up the ass from whomever walks in and makes them their bitch.
i would tell them that their weasel wording is not good enough. The “at this time” indicates its could change at any time. so “at this time” I will retire. BYE!
The effeminate will not survive to write any history books.
100% correct! These spineless companies need to be made examples of, otherwise, they will just immediately knuckle under to the next fascist edict that comes from our utterly corrupt and incompetent government.
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