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Spirit Airlines Will Give Employees COVID-19 Testing Option, Won’t Mandate Vaccines
International Business Times ^ | 10/9/21 | Lauren Dubois

Posted on 10/11/2021 7:55:44 PM PDT by Dana1960

Unlike other airlines which are federal contractors and subject to stricter rules when it comes to their employees’ decisions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or not, Spirit Airlines will give employees an option to get regular COVID-19 tests—though employees will need to agree to one of the two policies.

In an email Friday, CEO Ted christie told staff that if they wanted to avoid the upcoming federal vaccine mandates for larger private companies, that they would need to get their vaccines soon, though testing would be an option when the mandate went into effect.

“The federal government has made it clear that COVID-19 vaccination or testing requirements will be mandated for companies with more than 100 employees, and we will comply with that order,” Christie said in the email, which was obtained by CNBC.

The company, which had 8,700 employees at the end of 2020, does not have to follow the same rules as some of its rival airlines, such as American Airlines, JetBlue, Alaska Airlines and Southwest, all of which are federal contractors and held to a stricter standard that doesn’t give employees a testing option. Employees of those airlines are expected to comply with the rules by Dec. 8.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlines; anthonyfauci; covid; covidstooges; obamacare; regulations; spiritairlines; vaccine; vaccinemandates
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To: SaxxonWoods

Show me where this “mandate” is written in law. It’s not and it never will be. The power of Joe Biden’s press conference threat is purely fictional. They can’t make it real because they’re (rightly) terrified it won’t hold up to a court challenge. Someone decided it would work just as well when corporate America, afraid for their favored tax status and bailout money, decided to once again, abuse their employees by threatening them with firings if they don’t get the jab. This way they keep Biden off their back and the taxpayer money keeps flowing to keep the business afloat.


21 posted on 10/11/2021 8:53:00 PM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: CatOwner

Testing is a fruitless endeavor, it’s not about liking or disliking a test. Far too many are wrong in both directions, saying you have covid as well as not. ...and the results create all kinds of uncertainties and trouble for people.


22 posted on 10/11/2021 9:03:01 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: janetjanet998

since vaxxed people can still get it and spread it

why shouldn’t they be tested too?

Stop asking logical questions, comrade.


23 posted on 10/11/2021 9:16:18 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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To: CatOwner

Amen!


24 posted on 10/11/2021 9:22:28 PM PDT by defal33 (TrumpWon )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Employees of those airlines are expected to comply with the rules by Dec. 8.

Yeah, the ones who haven't retired, quit, or been fired...
25 posted on 10/11/2021 9:24:11 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: upsdriver

>> Forced testing is unacceptable.

Agreed, but the “force” factor is the optional alternative to not being employed.

If you believe it’s a half-measure towards tyranny, I agree with that too.


26 posted on 10/11/2021 9:44:00 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Flick Lives; janetjanet998

>> why shouldn’t they be tested too?

Agreed


27 posted on 10/11/2021 9:45:34 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Never mind that there is no federal vaccine mandate.

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exactly!!!


28 posted on 10/11/2021 9:47:52 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: SaxxonWoods
Airlines are federal contractors, which apparently gives the feds the power under those contracts. It’s not connected to the business mandate. At least that’s what I’m hearing from an airline pilot.

IIRC, there's a clause in many federal government contracts where the government can just end the contract at the "convenience of the government". It's probably threatened 4-500 times more than it's ever enacted, and it's also probably the reason why some government contractors end up gleefully performing some shady boundary-blurring activities, like, say, enforcing a vaccine mandate on employees that was never part of the original contract, the employer's conditions for hiring, nor included in any official legal or administrative regulation.

Also, because many employers with federal contracts are "at will" employers, things like not submitting to a company policy, no matter how arbitrary, can become a reason for termination. There are boundaries in law, but I don't know where Covid shots fall under the EEOC complaint process, nor do I have a whole lot of confidence that the government would be willing to agree that discrimination based on vaccination status would be a legitimate EEOC complaint even if it would be so in a more sane world.

29 posted on 10/11/2021 10:14:59 PM PDT by jz638
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To: Dana1960

Looks like I’ll be flying Spirit. I won’t like it though. As a software engineer I used to work in the airline industry before the Plandemic hit.

-SB


30 posted on 10/11/2021 10:15:32 PM PDT by Snowybear ( )
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To: Dana1960
In an email Friday, CEO Ted [C]hristie told staff that if they wanted to avoid the upcoming federal vaccine mandates for larger private companies, that they would need to get their vaccines soon [...]

I get it! To avoid the mandate, they have to first comply with the mandate!

Did some "journalist" garble this, or is this genuinely what Christie said?

Regards,

31 posted on 10/11/2021 11:51:08 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Dana1960

“Spirit Airlines offers employees free flights on other airlines in exchange for vaccination. Achieves 100% vaccination rate.” OPNN


32 posted on 10/11/2021 11:54:12 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: antceecee

“What are they testing with?”

Probably the simple frontal nasal swab PCR test. Easy-peasy.

But — quite frankly — who cares what kind of test it is so long as they’re placated, not drawing blood, and not forcing the jab?

Take half a loaf.


33 posted on 10/12/2021 12:30:11 AM PDT by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: HKMk23

True dat


34 posted on 10/12/2021 12:50:29 AM PDT by antceecee
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To: charles_covington
If you have ever flown spirit airlines, you would rather get the jab and drop dead than fly that airline ever again.

Lol! I'm in complete agreement!

35 posted on 10/12/2021 4:06:07 AM PDT by NoLongerTrappedInNY
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To: charles_covington

Why?


36 posted on 10/12/2021 5:42:54 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Dana1960

“The federal government has made it clear that COVID-19 vaccination or testing requirements will be mandated for companies with more than 100 employees, and we will comply with that order,” Christie said in the email, which was obtained by CNBC.

Who needs laws or a Constitution when the words out of a demented resident hold even more weight, and Ignoramuses like Christie bow down to non existent mandates. Tyranny thru corporations.


37 posted on 10/12/2021 6:17:24 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: Dana1960

Which test is required? the home test? Which “vaccine”? Only one of them is a “vaccine” and not experimental gene therapy. We can get a B-12 shot and call it a “vaccine” by those standards. Not to mention that none of their mandates are FDA approved. What a clusterf*ck, by design.


38 posted on 10/12/2021 6:39:20 AM PDT by TheElectionWasStolen
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To: o-n-money

and the viral load is greater with a freshly “vaxxed” person.


39 posted on 10/12/2021 6:40:40 AM PDT by TheElectionWasStolen
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