{"id":426,"date":"2021-09-03T18:51:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2021-09-03T18:51:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:51:36","slug":"alaska-airlines-will-give-vaccinated-employees-200-stops-in-need-of-company-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/alaska-airlines-will-give-vaccinated-employees-200-stops-in-need-of-company-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines will give vaccinated employees $200, stops in need of company mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alaska Airlines\u00a0would require\u00a0unvaccinated employees to be tested regularly for Covid-19 but the Seattle-based carrier stopped\u00a0in need of\u00a0mandating vaccines, a policy it said\u00a0it had been\u00a0considering last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alaska said employees who share proof of vaccination by Oct. 15 will receive a $200 bonus. Three-quarters of the airline\u2019s roughly 20,000 employees are vaccinated\u00a0thus far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airline vaccine policies\u00a0for his or her\u00a0staff vary. United Airlines\u00a0would require\u00a0its roughly 68,000-person U.S. workforce to be vaccinated by Sept. 27, barring religious and medical exemptions. Delta Air Lines last month announced it plans to impose a $200 surcharge for medical insurance for unvaccinated employees in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alaska Airlines said\u00a0it&#8217;ll\u00a0not\u00a0cover the pay of unvaccinated employees for Covid exposure or infection. Unvaccinated staff must also attend \u201ca vaccine education program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New hires must be vaccinated\u00a0to figure\u00a0at Alaska Airlines or subsidiary Horizon Air, also a requirement\u00a0to start\u00a0work on\u00a0Delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines\u00a0would require\u00a0unvaccinated employees to be tested regularly for Covid-19 but the Seattle-based carrier stopped\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestfaredeal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}