Want a bigger raise? How about R740? US companies push Covid-19 shots for staff

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Kevin Kelly is hitting his anti-vax workers where it may hurt them most: their paychecks.

123RF/milkosOn Sept. 1, when regular raises go through for the 250 workers at Emerald Packaging Inc.'s plastic bag factory outside San Francisco, those fully vaccinated will get a 3% bump, while those who resisted vaccination will get only half, 1.5%.

A national vaccination campaign spearheaded by the Biden administration peaked at 3.3 million doses a day in mid-April and has been limping along at a daily pace of just over 500,000 since the Fourth of July holiday. At the current pace, most models show the country won't reach the lowest threshold for herd immunity — about 70% — until late this year.

Covid-19 infections are increasing across the country, according to Reuters data, with some 40,000 infections reported on average every day. That’s 16% of the daily peak seen during the pandemic in January, but the fast-spreading Delta variant is now making headway, especially in many traditionally industrial Midwestern states where vaccination rates are lower than in coastal regions and major cities.

Bob Roth, co-owner of Roman Manufacturing, a small producer of transformers and glass-moulding equipment in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has offered workers a crisp R730 bill as a “thank you gift” for getting the shot. The company kept it small and called it a thank you, not a formal incentive, he said, because of the vagaries of federal labour law.

 

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