Covid-19: Google and Facebook make the vaccine mandatory on their premises
Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
AP - Jeff Chiu
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The vaccine obligation to enter the premises of the two companies will be implemented in the coming weeks in the United States first.
Google has even declared to extend this obligation to the rest of the world "in the coming months".
But in reality, it remains complicated to implement.
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Regarding
the vaccine obligation
, the two internet giants Google and Facebook are on the same wavelength.
The two Californian companies have simultaneously announced that they will require all their employees to be vaccinated to get to work.
Between them, nearly 100,000 employees around the world would be affected.
They join a movement initiated in June by the Morgan Stanley bank or the asset management group BlackRock.
Telecommuting for the unvaccinated
Concretely, they did not speak of dismissing the refractory, but only of subordinating face-to-face work to vaccination.
has postponed the return of employees to its premises until October 18 but expects 20% of them to continue working at home.
The social network plans to reopen its offices at 50% gauge in September and go to full capacity in October.
This requirement is legal in the United States.
According to the US federal agency responsible for respecting laws against discrimination in the workplace (EEOC), an employer can ask its employees for proof of vaccination against
Covid-19
, with exceptions for medical or religious reasons.
In other countries, such an obligation remains impossible.
In the same movement, several American media indicate that President
Joe Biden
should soon announce the vaccination obligation for all federal officials unless they submit to a strict protocol of tests.
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