T-Mobile will fire unvaccinated corporate employees starting April 2nd

[StrictlyRockers]

Source: engadget.com

T-Mobile will fire corporate employees who aren’t fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by April 2nd, reports Bloomberg. The carrier confirmed the deadline after the outlet obtained an internal email in which Deeanne King, T-Mobile’s chief human resources officer, said the company will put employees who have gone out and only gotten one dose as of February 21st on unpaid leave.

“T-Mobile’s badge-controlled offices continue to be accessible only to those who are vaccinated against COVID-19 and we have shared with employees that we are requiring office workers to be fully vaccinated by April 2nd,” a spokesperson for T-Mobile told Engadget. “We understand that this is a deeply personal decision for some employees but we believe that taking this step will put us in the best position to protect our T-Mobile community.”
The carrier told The Verge it will have some exemptions in place “for certain roles, locations and legally mandated accommodations and exemptions.” For instance, per Bloomberg, T-Mobile won’t put customer service employees on unpaid leave if they only have one dose of the vaccine by February 21st. It also won’t subject field technicians and store employees to the mandate.

Other large US companies have imposed similar deadlines on their employees. Workers at Google, for instance, have until January 18th to declare their vaccine status. The company will place those who refuse to get their shots or fail to secure a valid exemption on paid administrative leave for 30 days. It will then place those workers on unpaid leave for up to six months and eventually fire them if they don’t comply with the policy.
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[cadoman]

1. adios, shitheads!

"Personal decision" my ass.

[sakabatou]

2. Good on T-Mobile

[SuperCoder]

3. Yaaayyyyy!!!

Great job, T-Mobile.

[marybourg]

4. "It won't subject field technicians and store employees

to the mandate”. In other words it’s perfectly alright to infect customers, but not office employees and managers.

[catrose]

7. Exactly. And they tell you to go to the store for so many things.

[Sherman A1]

11. They are afraid of losing employees there obviously

And being unable to staff those positions. The mandate should apply across the company with zero exceptions.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Why are they waiting so long?

It's not as though the vaccine and boosters are in short supply and hard to get.

[C Moon]

6. To give them a chance to vaccinate.

My wife's company did the same, and they did fire those who didn't vaccinate.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. So did they just set this time line yesterday?

Remind me again when the vaccine and the boosters became available?

I guess they're going with the "no one could possibly have been vaccinated prior to next month"

Because April 1 is, let me figure this out, more than two months from now. So I'm guessing this mandate was sent out earlier today?

I am beyond willing to tolerate "We need to give employees time to vaccinate". It's not as though the vaccine hasn't been readily available for the best part of a year now.

I'm vaccinated and boosted. I wear a mask inside. I have the good fortune to live in northern New Mexico where mask wearing is common, to the point of being universal.

Fire the unvaccinated. And do not allow the unvaccinated into hospital.

[choie]

9. So the people who deal with the public

In the store or in the field don’t have to be vaccinated?? How does that make sense??

[multigraincracker]

10. Then they have to go back to the office

and spread it.