United Airlines CEO: Fewer than 10 employees quit over vaccine mandate

[Nevilledog]

https://www.businessinsider.com/united-airlines-vaccine-mandate-ceo-resign-staff-2021-9



United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said he knows of fewer than 10 employees who have resigned over the company's vaccine mandate.

Kirby told CNN on Thursday that about 90% of United's US employees had shown the airline proof of their vaccination. He thought the majority of the remaining workers had been vaccinated but hadn't uploaded evidence yet, he said.

In August, United Airlines became the first US carrier to mandate vaccines for all US-based employees. Staff must be fully vaccinated no later than September 27 — a date five weeks after the Food and Drug Administration fully approved Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine.

Speaking about how many employees had quit over the mandate, he said: "In a large company, it's a handful."

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. That's amazing good news.

Fewer than 10 quit over the vaccine mandate.

Iit ought to be similar numbers for all health care workers.

I will add this, as a former airline employee that airline workers tend to be very pragmatic about everything.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. They Have 93,000 Employees

One in 9,300 quit.
Employee age breakdown suggests they likely lose a 2-3 thousand employees per year through retirement.
So, 10 will never be missed.
And I mean never.

[nuxvomica]

2. This may have side benefits for employers

It's a fairly easy way to remove the employees that are likely to act stupidly in other contexts.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Thought The Same

Instinct tells me those 10 were pains in the rear to retain, anyway.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Once employers mandate vaccines, the idiots are going to shut up.

They are like bad kids who need Dad to tell them to sit down and shut up.

[gratuitous]

6. That can't be right

All the attention these selfish yahoos get from the popular media, they must be a majority, or a sizable minority of the general population. Or maybe they're just a bunch of attention-grabbing loudmouths getting outsize deference from the rest of us. Maybe it's safe to just ignore their yammering?