When Amazon offered in January to help the Biden government with the federal government’s response to the pandemic, it said it would inoculate its workforce with more than 800,000 people. The company is now starting this process, with vaccinations on site for frontline employees to be implemented in select call centers in Missouri, Nevada and Kansas in the coming weeks.
Amazon says it will expand the program as soon as more vaccines are available in other states. In the meantime, he will give a $ 80 bonus to self-vaccinated workers. This bonus adds to other incentives that the company distributed to employees during the pandemic. It is important to note that Amazon is not the only company that works to help vaccinate people in the United States. Walmart, for example, is holding community events in 43 states to vaccinate people in underserved communities.
The start of employee vaccinations is the latest development in what has been a long saga related to Amazon’s response to the pandemic. One of the most recent developments is a lawsuit from the state of New York claiming that the company did not properly disinfect two of its facilities and did not follow proper contact tracking procedures. Amazon said it did its best to protect its employees – although it is now also involved in a debate on Twitter about whether its policies lead workers to pee in bottles. In October, the company published data on how many employees tested or were found to be positive for COVID-19. Between March 1 and September 19, 2020, the company reported that that number was 19,816. Based on data from Johns Hopkins University, he estimated that the number of positive cases should be over 30,000.