This Company is Offering Bonuses to its Employees to Get the Covid-19 Vaccination

While many people around the U.S. anxiously await their turn to get the COVID-19 vaccination, Amazon workers can feel more assured that they soon could be heading to an Amazon warehouse to get theirs.

The e-commerce giant announced this week that it is launching on-site Covid-19 vaccinations at some warehouses

The company is setting up on-site vaccination clinics at fulfillment centers in Missouri, which will then be followed by Nevada and Kansas in the coming weeks.

According to Amazon, vaccination clinics at additional warehouses are expected to be launched across the country as more vaccine supply becomes available to front-line employees in other states.

The clinics are expected to run for about five days and vaccines will be administered to employees by licensed health-care providers.

The nation is now administering over 2.5 million shots a day and companies who have essential works have been trying to get their workers priority access.

In an interview with CNBC, Heather MacDougall, Amazon’s vice president for worldwide
workplace health and safety, said the company has been working with a third-party administrator who secures the Covid vaccines on Amazon’s behalf.

“Most of these conversations go on at the state and local level where those decisions are being made, in terms of who’s eligible for the vaccine,” MacDougall said.

Some of the company’s front-line workers have already been vaccinated in states where they’re eligible.

For the company’s front-line workers who are still hesitant to get the vaccine, Amazon is offering a bonus of up to $80, or $40 for each dose.

Amazon has also assured that employees who experience side effects from the Covid vaccine are eligible to take unpaid time off.

The company has additionally posted educational information and positive messaging about the vaccine around warehouses. This includes “inSTALLments,” the informational sheets posted in facility bathrooms.

CNBC has viewed one of the messages that reads the vaccine is “safe and effective” and is the “quickest way for life to return to normal.”

Already over 1,000 front-line employees with Amazon have signed up to get vaccinated at their first on-site clinic at a warehouse outside of St. Louis, Missouri. The clinic opened on Thursday.

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