Just out... IBM Mandating COVID vaccine for all US employees

Email from the CEO:

S. IBMers,

It has now been more than 18 months since the onset of COVID-19. While the pandemic continues to evolve around the world, the health and safety of our employees, clients and partners remains our top priority.

President Biden recently issued an executive order mandating COVID-19 vaccines for federal contractors. As a federal contractor, it is a business imperative for IBM to comply with this mandate. In light of this requirement, the policies of many of our clients and partners, and the easy access to vaccines around the country, we will now require all IBM U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated by December 8, 2021, in order to work at IBM.

This policy applies to all U.S. IBMers, regardless of where you work (at an IBM or client site) and how often you come into an IBM or client office. This includes employees who had been given a temporary exemption at eight Research and Systems sites deemed business critical. At this time, testing for COVID-19 will not be allowed in lieu of vaccination.

If you have not yet been vaccinated or received the second dose of a two-shot vaccine, you should get fully vaccinated now so you comply. If you need to request an accommodation based on medical or religious reasons, you are strongly encouraged to do so by November 8, 2021. Requests submitted after this date may not be reviewed by December 8, 2021, and could result in you being placed on an unpaid leave of absence and/or losing IBM badge access until it’s been resolved.

Complete entire vaccination validation process now
More than 20,000 of you have now started the required vaccination validation process we shared last month. Complete the process now to verify your vaccination status and comply with the new requirement.

Review updated FAQs
A set of updated FAQs are available with additional details about our U.S. process and deadlines. If you need help with the validation process, please use the #return-to-workplace-tools Slack channel.

As I have said on multiple occasions, we follow the science when it comes to the pandemic. While the best vaccines are highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death, it takes a coordinated campaign to stop a pandemic.

Thank you for continuing to support each other, our clients and our business. I am very proud of the work IBMers have done during the global health crisis.

Arvind Krishna
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IBM

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Form for Employers Requiring Covid-19 Injections Under Emergency Use Authorization
https://home.solari.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sr20210820-FormEmployeesEUA.pdf

Legal Resources
If you find yourself in a predicament with a company that refuses to hear you out, does not provide you with required information, or threatens termination of your employment, here are a few potential resources for attorneys:
America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS): AFLDS provides an intake form on their site that you can fill out and submit; they will search for an attorney in your area who is taking on this type of case. There is a small fee for the search, and of course, attorneys have their own fees. On July 19, 2021, AFLDS also filed a motion seeking immediate injunctive relief to
halt administration of EUA Covid-19 injections to anyone age 18 and younger; anyone who has recovered from Covid; and all Americans who have not received informed consent as defined by federal law.
https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.org/legal/vaccines-the-law
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/press_releases/aflds-files-lawsuit-seeking-immediate- injunctive-relief-revoking-the-emergency-use-of-covid-19-vaccines-based-on-disturbing- new-mortality-data/
Health Freedom Defense Fund: This nonprofit is working to address unethical and unlawful mask, testing, and vaccine mandates through focused legal actions. Resources for employees include a Notice to Employers (“Vaccine Notice”) that compulsory Covid-19 vaccination imposed by employers on employees violates federal law.
https://healthfreedomdefense.org/resources/
Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN): ICAN’s legal team is offering to assist employees who are being required by an employer to receive Covid-19 injections.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/forced-to-get-covid-vaccine-ican-may-be- able-to-help/
State-level: If you find yourself needing an attorney for a vaccine injury case, you can try looking through this state list:
https://uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/Vaccine%20Attorneys.pdf
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America’s Frontline Doctors: In addition to its legal resources (see above), AFLDS’ website includes information about Covid-19 treatments, “issue briefs” on post-vaccination compli- cations and other topics, and numerous other resources.
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/
Children’s Health Defense (CHD): In addition to reporting on vaccine safety topics via its flagship online news outlet The Defender, CHD offers a “Fighting COVID Mandates” toolkit and related resources, a series of eBooks (including eBooks on vaccine mandates and protection of individual rights), a research library, and a “Community Corner.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/
Doctors for COVID Ethics (D4CE): Among the excellent resources provided by this group of doctors and scientists from 30 countries are “Letter to physicians: Four new scientific discoveries regarding the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines,” which warns that “all physicians must reconsider the ethical issues surrounding COVID-19 vaccination,” and a 23-page Expert Statement outlining the serious risks of the Pfizer injection (European brand name Comirnaty) in children.
https://doctors4covidethics.org/
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@spr+1dcx9MBR: If you ever had any vaccination before like a flu-shot or a childhood vaccination, you will NOT get a religions exemption. You will have to prove you have never been vaccinated due to your religious beliefs. You will need to show a history of past exemptions, past letters from priest etc. Companies are not stupid. They will know right away if you have become religious all of a sudden because of the mandate.

Some people have tried claiming that they will not get the COVID vaccine because it used fetal cells during its research and development. That won't work either because many common medicines like Aspirin, Motrin, Tylenol, Tums, Maalox, Ibuprofen, Lipitor etc also used fetal cells during their R&D. So, you would have to prove that you have always preemptively refused your doctor/pharmacy/nurse from giving you these medications and have never taken them yourself before or in the future.

The bottom line is that employees at other companies have not been successful in getting religious exemptions. In rare circumstances they did get it, it came with additional conditions (always having to wear a mask while at work, showing weekly testing results etc). Those conditions are a bigger hassle than just getting the vaccine.

IBM is using this requirement to avoid paying their portion to your 401k. by setting the deadline to 12/8, you have to be employed on 12/15 to get IBM 401k.
Interesting don’t you think?

IBM is allowing for a "Religious Exemption" though. Please leverage that to the maximum extent possible.

So I guess since I am vaccinated, I keep my IBM job?
Or I guess I have a better chance to keep my IBM job... LOL!!

Great job Krishna, you have confirmed what everybody already knew...
You are a TYRANT!

@dxz+1dcx9MBR wrote "the EU considers someone recovered from covid equal to a vaccinated Person. So why is the “science” in America different? "

Because "science" in this case is actually politics. The same exact leaders who are enacting these mandates said they would never receive shots under a Trump administration. This includes the current VP.

Why is IBM doing this? Look at the timing. They watched 1000+ nurses up and leave their jobs and thought "ooooh - opportunity to decrease staffing for free!" Look at the date - one week before the 401K match payout. Not too hard to see what IBM is really all about here.

@hkw+1dcx9MBR They said 20000 “had started” the process. Who knows what that means. Maybe they just clicked the link.

@hkw+1dcx9MBR

I am wondering how many more than the 20'000 employees are left in the US...

hahah so glad i left this company. HAHAHAHA LOSER IBM

20,000 US employees have already verified their shot status. I wonder how many people won’t confirm their status (whether they got the shot or not). I also wonder what percentage of people would be needed to to not provide their status for IBM to back off of this mandate. On the other hand this gives IBM a great opportunity to reduce headcount in the name of “science.”

So the brass-knuckle adorned iron fist of tyranny grows even stronger. Hope everyone kept their powder dry. . .

the EU considers someone recovered from covid equal to a vaccinated Person. So why is the “science” in America different?

With no accommodations for covid survivors with anti bodies. Bye IBM!

@vgs+1dcx9MBR

You are correct... it is only a question of time now until IBM requires the 3rd shot... I would suspect that by early 2022 it will be a requirement.

Arvind Krishna is just another democratic puppet, what did you expect.

What happens when “fully vaccinated” is no longer 2 does but 3,4,5 …. ??

I'm vaccinated but I would have no problem with working alongside coworkers who are not. It's ridiculous of the CEO and the Fed Govt to say "we follow the science". It's not science. It's politics and control. This virus has a >99% recovery rate and fully vaccinated people are still catching it. This so-called "science" is also completely ignoring the actual science of natural immunity. This is all insane. Personally, I believe the POS CEO sees an opportunity to thin the ranks without paying out RAs.

If they (they being either our POS CEO, the Fed Govt, or some other little man/woman with too much power) can mandate this, what else will they mandate? Also comical in a tragic way - a year ago these same people in our Fed Govt said they would never mandate this. Even our POS VP is on video saying she wouldn't take the vaccine, yet here we are.

Wake up, sheep.

About time companies start getting serious about this. I’m surprised a super variant that is immune to the vaccine hasn’t cropped up yet

What are the other big tech companies doing? Supposedly this is a response to the Federal mandate. Im sure most big tech cos do business with the Feds.

call someone anti-vax is like calling them rac-ist..... just to put them down and shut them up when in fact they are not.. I am not anti vax, I have the vax.. but I am anti mandate!

You want the shot get the shot.. if you don't then don't I still feel safe around you because I had the shot..

IBM is a cr-p company. Nobody with any actual talent wants to work for them. If you're still stuck there, make them fire you and sue the ba----ds.

Ah the mo--n anti-vaxxers are out in force on this one. Bye folks!

Excellent News?? IBM is jettisoning the last few intelligent people still working for them.

I cant wait to see what they mandate next. Im glad I dont have to make decisions like this myself.

Yeah, great way to push more people out without severance...
Also note the date... December 8 is the deadline, that means no 401K match payments if you refuse to get vaccinated and get fired!

Aren't these IBM Execs smart?

Excellent news! The only way to get rid of covid.

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