{"id":239632,"date":"2021-08-01T07:15:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T07:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239632"},"modified":"2021-08-03T06:49:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T06:49:28","slug":"walmart-forcing-all-workers-to-mask-up-managers-to-get-vaxxed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239632","title":{"rendered":"Walmart forcing all workers to mask up, managers to get vaxxed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jesse O\u2019Neill \u2013 New York Post July 30, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Walmart is requiring workers in high risk areas to mask up \u2014 and will force all managers to get vaccinated by early October.<\/p>\n<p>The mask mandate <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.walmart.com\/newsroom\/2021\/07\/30\/walmart-responds-to-cdc-guidance-updating-mask-policy-and-urging-vaccinations-for-associates\">was announced Friday<\/a> and immediately implemented. It applies to all store workers, regardless of vaccination status, in high risk COVID-19 counties, as determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>The new policy came <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/27\/cdc-to-recommend-some-vaccinated-people-wear-masks-indoors\/\">three days after the CDC reversed<\/a> its <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/13\/cdc-to-tell-vaccinated-americans-they-can-ditch-masks-indoors\/\">May mask guidance<\/a>, calling on all people to wear face coverings indoors in the approximately two-thirds of the country where the deadly virus and its <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/30\/vaccines-alone-cant-stop-the-delta-variant-study\/\">Delta variant<\/a> are spreading rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart, the nation\u2019s largest retailer, had told vaccinated workers <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/14\/walmart-fully-vaccinated-employees-can-go-without-masks-tuesday\/\">they could unmask<\/a> in mid-May, after the CDC\u2019s original edict.<\/p>\n<p>Shoppers will be urged to wear masks in stores, but will not be forced to cover their faces, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/07\/30\/walmart-to-require-workers-wear-masks-in-stores-in-high-risk-counties.html\">according to CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Company officials also said the retailer\u2019s corporate staff and management-level employees must become inoculated against the virus by Oct. 4, according to a company memo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/07\/30\/walmart-tells-corporate-staff-managers-they-must-have-vaccine-by-october.html\">obtained by the outlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to get to a place where we can use our offices and be together safely,\u201d Chief Executive Doug McMillon reportedly wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s important for our business, our culture, our speed and our innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company also said it would now pay its store and warehouse staff $150 to get vaccinated \u2014 double the previous incentive, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart employs 2.3 million people around the world, 1.6 million of them in the US, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.walmart.com\/newsroom\/company-facts\">company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/30\/walmart-forcing-all-workers-to-mask-up-managers-to-get-covid-vaccine\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long before Walmart only allows vaxxed shoppers into its stores?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":225827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239633,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239632\/revisions\/239633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}