Ford is first major US automaker to mandate vaccines

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(CNN Business) Ford will mandate vaccines for its 32,000 US salaried employees, a spokesperson for the company said Wednesday.

Those workers have until December 8 to be fully vaccinated. Employees who refuse to do so and do not have an approved religious or medical exemption will be put on paid leave for a maximum of 30 days. After that time their job protection expires, according to the spokesperson.

"The goal is to achieve highest possible vaccination rate without severe consequences to any employee," said the spokesperson.

Ford is the first of the big-three US automakers to mandate vaccines for its US employees. The company's previous policy was to encourage vaccines among its US workforce of 88,000 — but the company did not make them mandatory.

Ford F General Motors GM , and Stellantis already require their employees in Canada to be fully vaccinated.

Ares1935 on November 4th, 2021 at 01:34 UTC »

ford is a govt contractor, so I dont think they had a choice unless they want to walk away from that business.

I would assume GM is just slow to hit send on the same email.

rekniht01 on November 4th, 2021 at 01:24 UTC »

The state of Tennessee just about blew up Ford's plans on building a huge EV plant outside of Memphis last week when they, in an Covid emergency session, passed a bill that outlawed vaccine mandates by private companies. Under threat by Ford pulling out they carved out a process in which companies can petition the need to have a mandate.

Tennessee is fucked up.

Perception_Free on November 4th, 2021 at 01:14 UTC »

I hope the anti vaxxers don’t sell their F150s in protest and flood the market with cheap trucks, please don’t….