Alaska Airways Airbus A320-214 arrives at Los Angeles worldwide Airport on September 15, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
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Alaska Airlines would require unvaccinated staff to be examined commonly for Covid-19 however the Seattle-based provider stopped wanting mandating vaccines, a coverage it mentioned it was contemplating final month.
Alaska mentioned staff who share proof of vaccination by Oct. 15 will obtain a $200 bonus. Three-quarters of the airline’s roughly 20,000 staff are vaccinated thus far.
Airline vaccine insurance policies for his or her employees range. United Airlines would require its roughly 68,000-person U.S. workforce to be vaccinated by Sept. 27, barring non secular and medical exemptions. Delta Air Lines final month introduced it plans to impose a $200 surcharge for medical insurance coverage for unvaccinated staff in November.
Alaska Airways mentioned it’ll now not cowl the pay of unvaccinated staff for Covid publicity or an infection. Unvaccinated employees should additionally attend “a vaccine schooling program.”
New hires have to be vaccinated to work at Alaska Airways or subsidiary Horizon Air, additionally a requirement to start work at Delta.
