Amazon gets rid of this starting Monday

This is a major change in Amazon's policy that reflects the current phase of the Covid pandemic.


Throughout the last year of the Pandemic of Covid, Amazon has become a service that had countless people across the country. Even if the company faced the same thingSupply Shortages This posted the rest of the United States, it was always one of the simplest and most coherent ways to order household needs at a time when many local businesses were temporarily clogged. For this to happen, Amazon employees have worked in difficult conditions and COVID epidemics in warehouses across the country. Fortunately, the tide has changed and from May 24, the company makes a major change that reflects the current phase of the pandemic: Amazon files its mask mandate for entirely vaccinated warehouse employees.

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On May 19, Amazon informed the workers that anyone who was completely vaccinating would no longer behave to wear a face covering At work, CNN reports. Employees must have more than two weeks of their final dose of the Covid vaccine and will have to share proof of vaccination. The mask mandate raised only applies to areas that do not have a local mandate in place.

The Amazon decision to leave its warehouse employees abandoning their masks follows the announcement of May 13 from CDC that its orientations had changed toFully vaccinated people, which can now go without mask in most situations. CurrentCDC guidelines"Fully vaccinated people can resume activities without a mask or physically distributing, with the exception of the request of federal, state, local, tribe, tribe, tribe, tribe tribal , including local directives of companies and workplace ". More and more companies update their policies accordingly.

During the pandemic, Amazon's warehouses were the site of severalCOVID epidemicsAs restricted neighborhood employees have struggled to keep up with the demands of a population more and more online stores. In October 2020, the company released data indicating that more than 19,000 employees - 1.44% of Amazon's workforceCONTRACT COVID, CNBC reports.

But theVaccine efficiency Has been a game changer and the sudden face of CDC has mask mask mandates through the United States. Some areas are still maintained for their mask needs, however, that's why a blog article on the Amazon site informs states' workers such as California, New Jersey and Massachusetts are still goinghave to wear face coatings, even if they are fully vaccinated.

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According to CNN, Amazon employees can download their vaccination information to the application of employees A to Z from May 24th. The fully vaccinated workers will receive a green check mark that will allow them to enter the building without mask. In June, warehouse employees will get a badge sticker to designate their vaccination status and they will need to download a copy of their vaccine card to the application.

The ability to work without mask is not just the only Incentive Amazon employees have to get the JAB. In February, the company offered up to $ 80 at the front lineWorkers get Covid vaccine, by the Amazonian blog and the employees were able tovaccinated on site In some places since March.

Of course, simply because the entirely vaccinated warehouses no longer have to wear masks that does not mean that they will not want to do it. Despite the guiding principles of CDC mask masks, many people said they are not ready to be ready toRemove their face coatingsAnd health experts say that this should be a matter of personal comfort. On the company's blog, Amazon emphasizes that, although entirely vaccinated people may need to wear masks ", which is invited to continue wearing a face covering."

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