Mayo Clinic Fires 700 Unvaccinated Employees, WCCO, Jan 4, 2022

[progree]

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2022/01/04/mayo-clinic-fires-700-unvaccinated-employees/
Mayo Clinic now confirms it fired 700 employees Tuesday who did not comply with its policy to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Monday.

The dismissed employees make up about 1% of Mayo’s 73,000 workforce. Officials say while it’s sad to lose valuable employees, it’s essential to keep patients, the workforce, visitors and communities safe.

People released Tuesday can return to Mayo Clinic for future job openings if they get vaccinated.

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"sad to lose valuable employees" - sounds like worthless pieces of human waste to me

[Mike Nelson]

1. Well...

... Good for them! Sounds like they want to keep people healthy. The unvaccinated people have a lot of job opportunities... many jobs are available. A neighbor's son just got a job at Burger King. She said he has to wear a mask, but was not required to be vaccinated. I'm sure there are many other jobs for these people.

[mrsadm]

2. It's the right thing to do

If the Mayo Clinic can’t enforce a ban, then society has lost its fundamental belief in science.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Qonned anti-science people? Good riddance

I wouldn't want one making decisions about my health care.

[SheltieLover]

4. Way to take out the trash!

[LittleGirl]

5. F* 'em. eom

[deRien]

6. Mayo Clinic employs

people in a variety of non-medical positions. Some of these could be housekeeping, billing, etc. ~ not necessarily performing medical treatment. I am glad that they have been fired for their lack of compliance with clearly stated policy.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. good for them. I can't beleive medical pros not getting vaxxed

[elias7]

8. As a hospital worker, I do not want to be taking the risk of working with an unvaxxed person

It’s tough enough going into every patient’s room with PPE. When employees are unvaxxed, it gives us no safe place, no safe people.

The policy has zero to do with freedom, just like having generations of us being vaxxed starting age 2 months against measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, h flu, hepatitis, rotavirus, varicella, meningococcus and not being allowed to be in school or work a normal job without proof of vaccination. It’s not about freedom, it’s about cooperativity in living in a society together and sacrificing for the common good.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. This was a good move

Antivaxxers do not belong in the health care industry