- Starting Nov. 1, unvaccinated Delta employees who have health insurance from the companywill face $200 monthly surcharges.
- From Sept. 12, unvaccinated employees will have to take a Covid test every week, while “community case rates” of Covid are high.
- United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines say they will mandate vaccines for employees.
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian notified employees Wednesday that they will face $200 monthly increases on their health insurance premiums starting Nov. 1 if they aren’t vaccinated against Covid-19, citing steep costs to cover employees who are hospitalized with the virus.
Unvaccinated employees will face other restrictions, including indoor masking effective immediately and weekly Covid-19 tests starting Sept. 12 the Atlanta-based airline said in announcing new Covid policies for employees.
The measures are the latest attempt by a U.S. corporation to drive up Covid vaccination rates. Delta stopped short of an outright mandate like rival United Airlines established earlier this month. The airline, which self insures its employees, stands out in its plans to raise premiums for unvaccinated workers to cover the higher costs of insuring employees who get Covid.
“The average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000 per person,” Bastian said in an employee memo. “This surcharge will be necessary to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company. In recent weeks since the rise of the B.1.617.2 variant, all Delta employees who have been hospitalized with COVID were not fully vaccinated.”
Every damn day starts with something that gets me pissed off!
When Trump or DeSantis is in power, I hope every one of these corporate boards is thrown into prison.
By Nov 1 it will be clear that covid is over. Meanwhile, Delta will get hammered for this. Employees will sue, and will win.
Isn’t it ironic that the people who do not believe in the true Judaeo/Christian God are the ones fulfilling Biblical prophecy? Welcome to the end times and the mark of the beast.
That’s exorbitant and bullshit.
https://ncrenegade.com/fda-lied-vax-not-approved-still-experimental/
Is there even one government agency that tells the truth and has credibility?
Big mistake. Butt jabbed employees are going to figure out ways to get even and Delta will never figure out who did what, when or why. Look for massive baggage problems: damage, disappearances, delays.
….and the discrimination just keeps on coming!!!!
Didn’t the Delta variant come from this company? – Surely the name means something? Who would fly this airline because of this?
Makes as much sense as all the rest of this cuckoo wacko nuts stuff.
Yeah that seems fair, I mean after all it’s their company ain’t it Rich?/s
I heard that they’re going to demand that everyone wears 2 left foot shoes now too. Apparently they’re contending that it’ll keep flight attendants from bump into each other in those narrow aisles. How’s that for fair Rich, I mean after all it’s their company.
Next, Dress Like A Clown Tuesdays.
Say what ever happened to medical privacy? Such a quaint notion but that shit is history now.
I thought Obamacare made charging people different amounts based upon “health differences” was illegal.
We are looking into the mind of the BEAST.
Just wait till you can’t get any life insurance, or are unable to collect on a policy over this. I’m sure it’s the next thing we’ll wake up to.
They’ve been charging smokers more for health insurance for 10 years or so.
Yes, Ted, which begs the question why insurance companies would pay off any death if they could get away with exploiting Covid panic.
Cancer? You did something to cause it.
Heart attack? You did something to cause it.
AIDS? You did something to cause it.
Etc.
Etc.
Why don’t they sue Dr. Fauci, he was the one who funded “Gain of Function” research! He is the one man who is responsible for all this crap.
Okay, how about if I vow to treat myself at home with ivermectin/hcq and not goto the hospital if I’m coofed up since that’s a death sentence anyhow?
So, if this goes without significant blowback, I see it applied industry wide and Biden making vaccinations a requirement for continued coverage under Medicaid and Medicare — as soon as next week.
Can’t wait to see the cafeteria pricing: Overweight? $100 more. Diabetic? $200 more. Gay? $500 more. Let the lawsuits begin!
@DavidW
You’re correct. It’s in the Affordable Care Act. You can’t be charged more. So this can go before Supreme Court and employees will win.
They will start to charge people more per ticket who don’t show proof of the jab. Just watch. Of course, if HR 4980 ever passes and signed into law, you will be on the No-Fly list anyway….
No one would DARE charge more to gay people or people who have AIDS. There would be riots in the streets — with proper social distancing, of course.
Delta CEO Ed Bastion is an uber libtard. Not surprising at all. They are also a DOD contractor and will have to cowtow to gubmit whims to keep the money rolling in.