Message was sent on 08/16 with deadline of 08/27 requesting that ALL employees. "Data is being shared to met local or state regulations or client or customer requirements" Email also states that employees who do not comply with providing mandatory vaccine status form will be subject to discipline up to and including termination of employment.
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Any 2022 update? These are all 202-
Is it true that UHC terminations are happening now April 2022
According to UHG website:
COVID-19 VACCINATION REQUIREMENT UPDATE: We have updated our COVID-19 policy for new and existing employees.
This policy applies to US/ US territory candidates and employees only: To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies now require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements, and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment.
Is there any update if they are are requiring it for full time telecommuters? I am applying to a role that is completely work from home.
ATTN: past/present UHC EE's
Hello, all.
I am curious, what "proof of vaccination" documentation does UHC require employees to submit in order to satisfy their requirements? Are there any 3rd party or internal verifiers working to make sure the information is legit?
Lol none unless your SVP of some group or a leader in new york or Cali. Good luck and congrats on the baby.
I’m pregnant and have documentation from my doctor supporting a temporary medical exemption to wait to get vaccinated until after I give birth. UHG told me that my medical exemption is “approved”, but that I am required to transition to a 100% telecommute job. I have been on unpaid administrative leave since 11/18 and so far the accommodations team has been unable to find a 100% telecommute job that I’m qualified for and meets my current pay grade. Im in sales and make $300k+. What kind of 100% telecommute job will pay the same? If they can’t find one soon, I will be terminated. So far they have not found a single job possibility for me. I’m losing my health insurance and my income with a baby on the way all because I’m not willing to go against my doctor’s recommendations.
I wasnt put on any leave. I still work fulltime at home and still get my bi-weekly paychecks. I said im not getting the vaccine on the questionnaire.
@1Lqou+1cnKklZb Thank you for your comment :)
When you say that you are “still receiving your checks”, are you saying that you weren’t put on an administrative leave and are still working in your position?
For anyone who was put on leave, please know there is a banding together to file a lawsuit. The way to connect is by emailing uhgvaccinemandate@gmail.com
thats weird. im remote fulltime and i said im not getting the shot and i havent heard anything since then and that was months ago. Still getting my checks.
I just found this thread and am currently on a 30 day unpaid administrative leave from UHG. My department’s deadline to be vaccinated was 11/15. My position was remote and I was considered a Full Time Telecommuter employee. I submitted a religious exemption and (surprise) it was denied. This is definitely discrimination and it is definitely illegal.
United Health subsidiaries are now requiring vaccination proof before 11/30 even for those who work from home. In Tennessee the bill has been passed that the private employers cannot request to know employee vaccine status. Federal contractors need to apply for an exemption. Are there any actions against UHG?
The Brown Shirts comment is right on the money. The my body my choice does not apply for the replacement of the flu.
The email will be coming tomorrow 10/5 stating that all employees will be required to be vaccinated by 11/30. Except for the following: Full-time telecommuters who
never have face-to-face contact
with other team members,
patients, members, providers
customers or suppliers, or are not
addressed by other business
guidelines or other federal, state
or local mandates.
A true tyrannical overreach. A lot of states are not complying. many lawsuits so lawyers will be happy. Look to Australia for a look into how quickly a gov can become unhinged with power. Truly a sad day.
UHG will back the brown shirts and will use this to speed up offshoring.
UHG makes money of the sick and makes a lot of money from covid so they will jump the g-n on the illegal mandate before the courts will strike it down.
Biden just said hes going to require all employers with over 100 employees to get the mandate. I didnt realize we are in communist china now where the government mandates what you do.
@fffd+1cnKklZb - Sorry you are right. It’s not “misinformation”; It’s “disinformation”. I debunked the rest of your disinformation, but the moderator removed. Let me put the results in terms you can understand
Of roughly 35.2 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, around 614,300 people, or 1.7%, have died, according to Johns Hopkins University’s mortality data as of Aug 6.
< .05% (1 in 2,000) vs 1.7% (1 in 58) are very different. The < .05% is the disinformation that was removed from Facebook recently, which is why I’m asking the moderator not to remove.
I would rather take me chances with covid then the dr-gs that are not effective but can ki-l you.
I would rather take me chances with covid then the dr-gs that are not effective but can ki-l you.
Are they going to make us take the new Covid Pfizer pill as well? Yes it's real and taxpayers will pay for it. And media will spin it. And posts like a few below will justify it. And no not staying home this labor day.
That quote does not sound like misinformation. If anything, your post is “misinformation” suggesting an inflated M/M rate. You also seem to glaze over the other valid points made in the post. The (overall low) percentages on that website appear to be total fatalities and case numbers. Also check how they define a “case”. If you take into account the currently low positivity test rate and the overall low probability of mortality (even including the confounders of age, BMI, and other comorbidities), survivability appears to be well over 99%. Some people are more comfortable taking the risk of infection vs the risk of taking a liability-free medical procedure with known side effects.
ERs, ICUs, and pediatric ICUs are filling up with unvaccinated patients.
Schools are just starting back and states like Florida and Texas are reporting deaths of teachers.
The National Guard is being deployed to help overwhelmed hospitals in several states.
Yes, boosters may be needed but so far vaccines are greatly reducing the risk of hospitalization or death.
Please get vaccinated or have the decency to stay home when you contract COVID.
People claiming there is a mandate to show employee covid vaccine status, show me where that applies to full time WFH.
Corporate: complete survey or be disciplined by 8/27
Also Corporate: complete workplace violence training where they say bullying and intimidation should be reported 🤦♀️
More and more data on the vaccines waning effectiveness. Even the cdc is now saying so. Boosters every 5 months being hinted lol. Make sure to buy the appropriate stock as this was always about the money.
So now that 8/27 has passed we will now see how they will go after who declined vaccination. The government is signaling boosters will be needed, so the next question will probably be if you are vaccinated you are now required to disclose if you are getting boosters. If you say no, what will be the treatment of those ?
Moderator - you are removing corrections to inaccurate information and leaving non factual information. Stop being part of the misinformation campaign.
“There is also a subset of people more comfortable taking the risk of a < .05% chance of morbidity/mortality (after the equally small chance of becoming infected) and acting responsibly (wash hands, physical distance, etc) to reduce spread.”
Real #’s are …
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
@2qpq+1cnKklZb - Burden of proof will fall on you. Due to the inconsistencies, simply having COVID is not enough. Medical records will need to be shared.
Dr. Soumya Swaminathan
After getting COVID, people do get an immune response, but this varies from person to person and it depends on whether you had a mild infection or whether you had more severe infection. And we know from many studies now that if you've had a very mild or asymptomatic infection, then many people may have very low levels of antibodies that they form. So this is why we still recommend that even if you've had COVID infection, that you should go ahead and take the vaccination when it's available to you, because the vaccine then serves as a boost to the immune system. After getting COVID, people do get an immune response, but this varies from person to person and it depends on whether you had a mild infection or whether you had more severe infection. And we know from many studies now that if you've had a very mild or asymptomatic infection, then many people may have very low levels of antibodies that they form. So this is why we still recommend that even if you've had COVID infection, that you should go ahead and take the vaccination when it's available to you, because the vaccine then serves as a boost to the immune system.
@3inj+1cnKklZb - here you go … What will be your next excuse? Physician’s are not telling people under 60 to not be vaccinated.
https://www.fda.gov/patients/learn-about-your-medicines
https://www.immunize.org/fda/#covid
Yikes these replies are so.....
I can't believe some of you people are in healthcare
@7mwa+1cnKklZb That isnt for all groups. It's only for certain category employees. If you're going to quote policy, you should quote who it pertains to. Section D that you quoted is for Cat I &II only.
They can fire you.
"For Employees required to report Vaccination status, but not yet required to be
fully vaccinated or request a formal exemption: After the required compliance date
has passed, employees who have not completed the reported requirement will be
subject to discipline, up to and including termination of employment. Until an employee
reports vaccination, he or she will be considered unvaccinated and required to comply
with currently required non-pharmaceutical interventions and preventive measures (e.g.,
masking, distancing, testing, etc.)."
Andrew Witty was installed as CEO (replacing Wichmann) after returning from a "leave of absence" to work with the WHO and UN on vaccines and "covid efforts". Prior to his employment with Optum, he led GlaxoSmithKline and left when the company was under investigation.
How many of you are willing to join a class action lawsuit against this tyrannical company? I’m NOT willing to take this shot and hope I live. This is NOT about US the employees it’s about MONEY to these tyrants. I’ll check back to see how many of you have the backbone to stand up for yourselves.
Until Pfizer, Moderna, J&J produce an official package insert that I can review with my doctor, I will not consider this injection, or any medication until reviewing the official package insert. Also, many, many doctors are not recommending these injections to healthy people under the age of 60 -- why? they cannot guarantee "Do no harm". I will never comprehend why anyone would listen to a government bureaucrat regarding any medical treatment.
@3qgq+1cnKklZb‘s post is an example of how this situation is not about care and concern for the health of our community, but rather control and authoritarianism.
While the subset may be relatively small, there are people who legitimately cannot take the vaccine and are demonised or bullied by colleagues. That is not the right approach… no one is going to feel compelled to do the right thing after being harassed, belittled, and told to die. There is also a group of people who have legitimate concerns and are ostracised for that. There are historical medical atrocities that impacted certain groups of people who are understandably hesitant to take medical direction from a government or employer. There is also the fact that the manufacturers have immunity to legal repercussions in case someone is harmed by the vaccine. That asymmetric dynamic is inherently unfair. As of now, none of the vaccines have been approved by the FDA. There are also people who have legitimate ethical concerns about how these vaccines were developed. There is also a subset of people more comfortable taking the risk of a < .05% chance of morbidity/mortality (after the equally small chance of becoming infected) and acting responsibly (wash hands, physical distance, etc) to reduce spread. Then there is a group who just may not care. The latter group can be encouraged through education and encouragement to do the right thing for their situation.
In regard to UHG’s approach to this, it is certainly not ideal. Up until now, they have clearly said that taking this vaccine is a personal choice and is encouraged, but voluntary. Then they send out an email with bold red font stating it is mandatory to report your status or you risk termination. The policy also has been incrementally changing on the Hub, and vaccines “at this time” are not required for continued employment, but also “this policy is subject to change”.
Hopefully we can support one another through this nerve-wracking process rather than add to the division.
C suite are looking at 20% surcharge of premiums for unvaccinated employees just like smokers