WASHINGTON (Reuters) – United Airlines will allow employees who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 to return to regular work from March 28, an internal message read.
The airline, one of the first major American companies to have made vaccination compulsory for its employees, specifies that approximately 2,200 of them have been authorized to take unpaid leave or assigned to a position without direct contact with the customers for religious or medical reasons related to this obligation.
“We plan to welcome these employees back (…) to their usual position from” March 28, she adds, confirming information from the Wall Street Journal.
The group’s chief executive, Scott Kirby, said in December that around 200 employees out of a total workforce of 67,000 had been dismissed for refusing vaccination without a valid reason.
These 200 people will not be reinstated, the Wall Street Journal said.
(Report David Shepardson, French version Marc Angrand, edited by Sophie Louet)
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