Yes... but no. You can choose to get tested regularly and provide negative covid tests instead.
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Yes, the email just came out yesterday.
Why only this vax and not any of the others?
Once you take the poke, you can still get it and spread it, so what's the point?
Aside from the added health risks, what is the benefit?
Why are retail and manufacturing staff exempt? Do they only hire immune people?
What happened to my body my choice?
Trust the government. They know best. When have they ever mislead us?
Yawn.
This has grown tiresome.
Why the heck are retail, Air MI and distro centers not required? This is all about getting the people back to their newly expanded and overpriced campus for the glorious "culture" to return isn't it?
You are sick in the head. I’m vaccinated, and couldn’t care less what other people do with their body. If you are that determined to force people to get vaccinated, you have some strange personal problems. You’re the exact same as the nutty anti-vaxxers. You’re the opposite side of the same crazy coin.
@6huf: While I’m sure you like to see yourself as the voice of reason, your post reads like an anti-Vaxxer anthology lifted directly from Facebook.
Just for example I could point out the current state of medical emergency in Idaho and other places with low vaccination rates where hospitals are turning away patients and emergency care is being rationed. Because according to you no public health purpose is being served by getting the vaccine? Weird.
Or I could point out that immigrants and refugees are indeed getting Ivermectin…but not related in any way to Covid. They’re getting it as a presumptive treatment against intestinal parasites. An easily verified fact. You know, for those who actually deal in facts.
But I’ve discovered that trying to rationalize with people like you is like trying to convince the average Trump Cultist that, yes, he really did lose the election. Because he’s a human dumpster fire that Americans understood needed to go.
I’m done with people like you. Get the vaccine or quit. At this point I’d prefer people like you just disappear back under the rock from which you arrived.
A mandate is not a federal law. Congress makes the laws, they probably don’t teach that at Pensole. AND interestingly Congress is NOT mandated to get the vaccine.
First of all, nothing I wrote is an “insane” conspiracy theory. It seems as though you have issues with independent thinkers, those who ask questions or don’t 100% share your ideology. So I’m assuming you’re a millennial.
Secondly, unlike you, I like to get various opinions, hear alternative points of view that are legitimate arguments vs. the typical gen y, “you’re stupid” defense. I believe that it’s important and helpful for everyone to have the opportunity to share their concerns and one of the concerns I have is that the vaccines for Covid were all developed and approved in less than a year. Obviously there can be no long-term safety data on chemicals which are less than a year old. Plus, the manufacturers have been granted legal indemnity should they cause harm! AND according to you anyone who is concerned about this is a “rube” or conspiracy theorist anti-vaxer. The manufacturers themselves, upon releasing the untested mRNA gene therapies, were quite clear their product’s “efficacy” was based on reducing the severity of symptoms and do not prevent you from passing the disease onto others. Isn’t the point of a vaccine mandate to prevent spread and prevent infection? Not only does the data show that the vax isn’t working, it’s not even necessary. Unless you’re 85 and overweight the chances of dying from Covid is 0.04%. And actually the average age of “Covid death” is greater than the average life expectancy, so instead of wanting any of your co-workers to lose their jobs because they have legitimate concerns or just want to make their own personal health decisions, maybe we should be fighting back against a mandate which does nothing for public health. And if this were really about public health why won’t the Biden administration require the vaccine for refugees/and new immigrants (or Congress) and why are they being given Ivermectin instead? The mandates seem arbitrary and the risks do not seem to outweigh the rewards.
Also it’s good riddance not riddens.
Why wouldn’t Sr Management be held to the same rules/consequences as the rank and file employees? S bands and above don’t get Covid? The elites get a pass, but the worker bees have to follow all the arbitrary rules? Wow.
@4owt: Nike will require the vaccine because it’s now federal law. It really is that simple.
How many employees will quit rather than be vaccinated? My guess is “almost none”. For starters Nike generally has an educated workforce that doesn’t buy into the insane types of conspiracy theories you’re promoting. Second, most people literally can’t afford to quit a job even if they wanted to. Anti-Vaxxer’s will put up a stink and make all kinds of threats to quit but at the end of the day they need a paycheck like everyone else. Their “deeply held principles” are all good and well until real consequences - like not having an income - enter the picture. At that point the vast majority of them will wake up from their stupor and get the vaccine. And if a few people don’t then good ridden’s. They won’t be missed by anyone. Frankly anyone who refuses the vaccine because they aren’t smart enough to discern fact from fiction shouldn’t be employed at Nike in the first place. It would be fantastic if these rubes would self-identify so they can be sent packing.
Thanks, Phil Valentine
Hard to imagine such a woke company like Nike willing to infringe on the civil liberties of it’s employees, especially POC and/or those with PHDs (who are most likely to decline the shot). Plus why is everyone so blindly trusting our corrupt Government, they don’t have the greatest track record? Covid is a virus with an over 99% survival rate and the shot has proven to NOT prevent spread or infection, why would you mandate something that does not work? What about those who have antibodies? Well, if it does get mandated It will be interesting to see how many people choose their health over their employment.
Get a vaccine you selfish child
If you work as an ETW at Nike, but the recruiting firm/placement agency that cuts your checks has more than 100 employees, as an employer they will also be required to comply.
I suspect because the money that pays you ultimately comes from Nike, to be on campus you will need to be vaccinated or test weekly. The whole point of the mandate is to reduce spread in large groups/close quarters.
More details on the mandate are still being worked out by OSHA:
"The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work. OSHA will issue an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to implement this requirement. This requirement will impact over 80 million workers in private sector businesses with 100+ employees."
I think the better question is will Nike enforce this evenly across the board. I can't see them holding sr. management to the same rules/consequences as the rank and file employees.
Also, how does this affect the many people who don't work for Nike, but work at Nike - i.e. ETWs. If I'm an independent contractor does that exempt me since I'm essentially a company with one employee?
Yes, antivaxxers will not be tolerated at Nike.
There has been no official announcement. However, Nike will be held by the new Federal mandate of vaccine or frequent testing:
"The expansive rules mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers require them to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly, affecting about 80 million Americans. And the roughly 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid also will have to be fully vaccinated."
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-executive-branch-18fb12993f05be13bf760946a6fb89be