Dallas-based Texas Instruments will require all of its U.S. employees and contractors to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Oct. 29 or face losing their jobs, according to an internal company email obtained by D Magazine.
“In light of the accelerating spread of new variants, we are requiring our U.S. employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19,” a company spokesperson confirmed Monday.
“We have no greater responsibility to our employees than to provide a safe work environment.
Now more than ever, vaccination remains the number one defense against the spread of COVID-19 and is the best way to protect our employees and our community.”.
Texas Instruments joins a growing number of employers instituting or considering vaccine mandates as the delta variant of the virus continues to upend anything like a full return to the pre-pandemic “normal.”.
Many healthcare providers, including Baylor Scott & White Health and Texas Health Resources, already require workers to be vaccinated.
But Texas Instruments is perhaps the most notable case so far of a major North Texas employer instituting a vaccine mandate for all of its U.S. employees. »
