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 was about to ask, wouldn’t that be considered discrimination?
Left Kroger years ago. Publix is far far better.
Legal tender. LOL.
But it does lessen your chances of going to the hospital should you get Covid, which reduces Kroger’s health care costs. You can argue that all day long, but it’s a fact.
1. Stop shopping at Kroger’s. 2. Kroger’s is encouraging all non-union employees to join the union. Never support a socialist or communist business.
Quite the opposite. It increases your chances of catching COVID as well as suffering detrimental side effects of the Jim Jones Jab such as myocarditis, pericarditis, and strokes. An employer who follows unsupported data to overcharge employees while ignoring actual data is committing fraud.
How about raising rates for those employees being Sodomites too. That’s risky behavior.
FU Kroger
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