Report: 11,000 Boeing workers seek vaccination exemptions

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

EVERETT — Some 11,000 employees of the Boeing Co. — about 9% of the U.S. workforce — have sought religious or medical exemptions to a company and federal requirement that workers be vaccinated, the Reuters news service reported Tuesday.

Quoting “people familiar with the matter,” Reuters said the number of exemptions sought was many times higher than executives expected. The requests have the company “scrambling for a strategy that keeps employees safe and complies with President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors, but avoids an exodus of engineering and factory labor,” the news report said.

The company declined to confirm the number reported by Reuters, saying only that “Boeing is committed to maintaining a safe working environment for our employees, and advancing the health and safety of our global workforce is fundamental to our values.”

Boeing set its own vaccination deadline for employees, of Dec. 8, but has extended it to Jan. 4 to match the federal mandate.

https://www.heraldnet.com/business/report-11000-boeing-workers-seek-vaccination-exemptions/

[SoCalNative]

1. Fine

give them their exemptions. Then place every one of them on unpaid leave indefinitely.

[Hekate]

2. 9% ? Well, there's plenty of workers who'd be glad of the jobs...

Just like the job openings in Police, Fire, and Sheriff departments.

What’s that you say? 99% of the refuseniks decided they’d rather be vaxxed than be laid off? Funny how that kind of incentive works.

[lagomorph777]

3. No wonder Boeing is having so much trouble with Dreamliner and SLS.

9% of their workers are idiots.