Posted on 12/14/2021 11:03:55 AM PST by upchuck
Kroger, the nation's largest traditional grocery chain, announced significant policy changes this week aimed at compelling employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
What are the details? Starting next year, the Cincinnati-based company will no longer provide two weeks of paid emergency leave to unvaccinated employees who become infected with COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday after viewing a company memo.
The paper noted that Kroger also plans to add a $50 monthly surcharge to company health plans for salaried nonunion employees who are unvaccinated. Both policies are set to take effect on Jan. 1, the Journal said.
According to the Associated Press, in an email to employees, Kroger leadership said the company would still offer "various leave options for employees who contract the virus, including earned paid time off and the ability to apply for unpaid leave," but that paid "special" leave would now only be available to fully vaccinated employees.
What else? Kroger, which employs nearly 500,000 people who interact with up to 9 million customers every day, will reportedly continue offering a $100 reward to employees who get the shot.
The company's policy changes fall short of a vaccine mandate. Rather, they aim to pressure employees to get vaccinated by making life more difficult for those who choose not to do so. Or in this case — more expensive.
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I expect lawsuits will be filed over this. Hopefully with the same result as the vax mandate orders are having.
Democrats would love that idea.
Yep. Every grocery chain in hiring now.
If you work at Kroeger’s go in on your last day and pour cement down the toilet
Geez, you snapped that one off my keyboard.
Kroger's employees - as with any company's employees - who are obese with all the obese-related hospital expenses cost the company far more, and have for many, many years.
So it's not a money thing, now, is it?
“I wish there were Kroger’s in San Antonio.
So I could boycott them”
You may be able to indirectly:
The Kroger Co. Family of Stores includes:
Baker’s
City Market
Dillons
Food 4 Less
Foods Co
Fred Meyer
Fry’s
Gerbes
Jay C Food Store
King Soopers
Kroger
Mariano’s
Metro Market
Pay-Less Super Markets
Pick’n Save
QFC
Ralphs
Ruler
Smith’s Food and Drug
So a $100 bribe to do what the company wants. Got it.
Excellent point. Show up to work sick and hope you get over the Coof by the time anyone notices.
Thought experiment - What if businesses deny paid health care for homosexuals since they have a higher chance of contracting AIDS?
The world has become insane and many are using the virus as an excuse to do what they otherwise would not be able to do. If sanity ever returns people are going to look at these Judas Goats for what they are, scum.
It’s a Deep State conspiracy.
I have a nephew-in-law who works for Fred Meyer, a Kroger company. He’s not vaxxed. I wonder if he’s gonna be affected...
Duress to induce unwanted medical treatments is a violation of the Nuremberg Code—even if you have one employee.
A better analogy would be if an employer required lobotomies for all new employees.
Human rights apply to every human being.
Well I guess it is a lot more than $100 bribe, based on the cost of health insurance premiums being raised, and loss of some leave time availability.
The Krogers in the Northern part of Gwinnett County in Georgia are having a hard time getting and keeping employees. There is a rumor around here that Kroger may close or consolidate some of their stores.
They have offered my teenage son four different positions and he can start that day. He keeps telling them NO.
Off to do my shopping at Publix.
A voluntary addiction/habit that purposely endangers your health, is not a unlawfully mandated vaccine that has yet to be approved. So where does it stop? I get 3 shots but not the 4th, and I get canned?. They sure as hell can be sued, bigly
All at a time when folks are quitting their jobs left and right. Businesses can’t hire folks. Great way to treat your employees.
I wonder if they’ve been asked about how many of their employees got COVID, how long they were out, etc.
Interestingly, from the headline, if you get the shot to prevent you from getting COVID and still get COVID, then you’re good as far as retaining benefits.
If don’t get the shot, get COVID, then you won’t retain any of the benefits.
Hmmmmm.......am I missing something? And to think that the people making these decisions are making some legit bank and really thought this through. Amazing.
Must be MBAs from Harvard.
One of the wisest men in the modern era once said..... “..in any great disaster, there’s a Harvard man in the middle of it.”.....Thomas Sowell
Kroger’s empty shelves aren’t all supply chain woes. When you’re peering back into the walk in cooler behind the empty racks for eggs and see a pallet of them, it’s a personnel problem. Stupid company trying to run a traditional store while implementing their new shopper and deliver services. Pretty neat trick if accomplished while chasing off irreplaceable employees.
Done wirh Kroger.
I will adjust my shopping habits accordingly.
I will miss the gasoline discount.
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