![]() ![]() “They’ve got a broad pretty solid basis for saying: ‘We’re here to protect the workers, and this is part of our purview, and we think that this is something that will protect employees,’” he said. How extensive are company mandates already?Ĭorporate vaccine mandates began to roll out substantially in late July, shortly after the Biden administration announced that it was requiring all civilian federal employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or to submit to regular testing and other strict requirements. Walmart and Disney led the way, followed by others including Uber and Google. 23, more mandates came flooding in from Goldman Sachs, Chevron and others. Companies like Walmart and Citigroup have mandates for their corporate employees but not for frontline workers. ![]() Many companies are dealing with labor shortages and varying levels of vaccine hesitancy across state lines. In a recent Willis Towers Watson survey of nearly 1,000 companies, which together employ almost 10 million people, 52 percent of respondents said they planned to have vaccine mandates by the end of the year, compared with 21 percent that said they already had vaccine requirements. The approach to mandates has run the gamut. Some, like Tyson Foods, which is requiring vaccines for its entire U.S. work force, have said that vaccines are a condition for employment. United Airlines has said it will fire employees who do not abide by the airline’s vaccine mandate or get an exemption those who are exempt will be placed on temporary leave, in many cases unpaid. Others, though, have worked a degree of flexibility into their requirements. Many, like AstraZeneca, have allowed employees with religious or medical exemptions to undergo weekly testing as an alternative to vaccination. Some, including UBS, have said employees who do not want the vaccine may work from home.Ī recent poll by Aon of 583 global companies found drastically different policies. Of employers that have vaccine mandates, 48 percent said they were allowing for religious exemptions just 7 percent said they would fire a worker for refusing to get vaccinated. #FACEBOOK STAFF TO DECELERATE SIGNIFICANTLY MANDATES FULL#.So from a public health perspective, it may not be the most positive thing. But I do think that that's a big part of the discourse at this point and certainly causes people to ask questions about whether they want to get vaccinated. But it's certainly, you know, contributing to an environment where people are asking questions about the safety of vaccines. And in some of these times, when people ask these questions, or - "Is this safe yet? Should I wait a while? " That's not misinformation. "What a lot of the stuff that's actually the hardest for us to really address is not what I would call misinformation, but instead, another category that I would call hesitancy."įor example, he said, "When you were first thinking about getting your vaccine, you probably had questions around, you know, which vaccine is the most effective for you and your family. ![]() "To some degree, there are also different definitions that people have over what misinformation is," he said. Zuckerberg said that while they take down clear misinformation, posts about vaccine hesitancy are more difficult. Since CBS News' interview was taped, Facebook released updated numbers in their second quarter Community Standards Enforcement report, saying 20 million pieces of COVID-19 misinformation have been removed since the start of the pandemic through June. In terms of fighting misinformation, Zuckerberg said "we've taken down more than 18 million pieces of misinformation," although he would not say how many Facebook users had seen such posts. He added that "billions of people have visited it." We've put over the last year, basically, links to this coronavirus information hub, sharing authoritative information from government officials as well as trusted community leaders." "So, you know, millions of people have taken their first step to getting their vaccine through a vaccine finder tool that we've built at the top of Facebook and Instagram. ![]()
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