United States: the majority of employees must be vaccinated by January 4

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Employees of U.S. companies with more than 100 employees will need to be fully immunized or tested every week starting January 4.

It is the White House which announces this Thursday.

The aim is to further increase the vaccination rate in the country and accelerate the economic recovery. 

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With our correspondent in Washington,

The vaccine obligation, it works.

It is President Biden who says so in the press release accompanying this announcement.

He notably underlines that since the first obligations which he decreed, the number of

went from 100 to 60 million.

Companies with more than 100 employees now know that they will have to apply these rules announced in September from January 4.

If many companies, among the largest and most famous in the country have already anticipated the call, others were waiting for details to organize.

They know they will face fines of up to $ 13,000 every time they break the rules.

The favorable population

The date of January 4, relatively distant, also allows to pass the holidays and not to add difficulties to the current logistical problems in the supply chains.

However, the White House stresses that wherever the

has been put in place, there have been no waves of layoffs or major shortages of personnel.

If there have been demonstrations against the obligation, especially among the firefighters or the New York police officers who introduced their own rules earlier, the US president says that the vaccine obligation has the support of public opinion. 

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