Kroger will ban unvaccinated staff from
getting paid sick leave if they catch
COVID and will start charging non-vaxxed
managers $50 monthly health insurance surcharge
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Shannon Thaler
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/14/2021 11:38:18 AM
Kroger has announced it will ban unvaccinated staff from getting paid sick leave if they catch Covid and will start charging managers and workers without their jabs a $50 monthly health insurance surcharge. According to The Wall Street Journal, the grocery store chain, which employed about 465,000 full- and part-time workers as of January 1, told employees through a company memo that Kroger will no longer hand out two weeks of paid emergency leave for unvaccinated employees who contract the virus.(Snip)Kroger will also require unvaccinated managers and nonunion employees to pay a $50 monthly surcharge that will go towards company health insurance plans.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 12/14/2021 11:46:55 AM (No. 1006652)
Us fat people are next. I hope someone sues them. This should be against the law. Can you discriminate if a vaxed person gets covid they get paid sick leave. But if you're not vaxed and get covid you don't get paid sick leave. And can they prove the $50 a month charge is justified?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 12/14/2021 11:56:48 AM (No. 1006660)
How much does an employee get to sue Kroger if they get myocarditis or blood clots?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/14/2021 11:57:22 AM (No. 1006661)
Illegal. The vaccinated get Covid and sick leave, and do not have to pay an extra $50 a month. Why should that be different if an unvaccinated person gets Covid. This is petty tyranny by a bunch of JA's at Kroger, who should have kept quiet and done nothing, but they brought their politics to work.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
freightdog 12/14/2021 12:10:44 PM (No. 1006677)
What about employees who don't get the annual flu shot then have to call out when they catch a bad case of the annual flu?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 12/14/2021 12:13:31 PM (No. 1006679)
I can almost hear the employment attorneys sharpening their knives.............
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 12/14/2021 12:17:06 PM (No. 1006681)
How about people who have health issues which preclude them from getting the clot shot? Allergies, heart troubles, other medical issues? Or those who have already had it and recovered and are protected by natural immunity?
I was under the impression that the ADA forbid discrimination on the basis of medical issues. Maybe Kroger associates need to sue over this.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/14/2021 12:18:40 PM (No. 1006684)
Great - that means that unvaxxed employees who get COVID will come in sick and spread the virus around. Just the other day in a Kroger store, I watched an employee pull down her mask, wipe a very red, runny nose, cought, pull her mask up, and start checking groceries without using hand sanitizer.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jalo1951 12/14/2021 12:22:02 PM (No. 1006687)
What about employees who have had the "shots" then get covid? The inoculation DOES NOT prevent you from catching or spreading covid. So how is this equitable? Shop at Kroger, might need to change my grocery habits. I don't like this.
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One repercussion I can think of to this policy is those employees with covid come to work anyway and infect the public. Thanks a heap Kroger for being such a narrow minded cretinous store chain. There are plenty of other stores to shop at, and we thank you for the warning.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 12/14/2021 12:53:36 PM (No. 1006742)
In a time of labor shortages, only the exceptionally stupid managers drive away their employees. I forsee many Kroger stores having problems and even closing because of this stupidity.
Life is all about choices. Kroger just made a VERY BAD choice. I hope it bites them hard.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 12/14/2021 1:00:23 PM (No. 1006755)
Too bad. I liked Kroger and others in the Kroger Family. They're pushing people to Walmart.
The Kroger Co. Family of Stores includes:
Baker’s
City Market
Dillons
Food 4 Less
Foods Co
Fred Meyer
Fry’s
Gerbes
Jay C Food Store
King Soopers
Kroger
Mariano’s
Metro Market
Pay-Less Super Markets
Pick’n Save
QFC
Ralphs
Ruler
Smith’s Food and Drug
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 12/14/2021 1:05:15 PM (No. 1006762)
Harris Teeter is also under the Kroger corporate umbrella.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 12/14/2021 1:20:41 PM (No. 1006780)
These mandates are not "for the greater good"; they are punitive and destructive.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
columba 12/14/2021 1:35:02 PM (No. 1006799)
How much will Kroger pay to people who have died from the "vaccine" caused deaths ?
15 people like this.
Time to find a new grocery store
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 12/14/2021 2:01:35 PM (No. 1006828)
Well a couple of questions. If they're paying $50 a month more for health insurance shouldn't that cover them if they come down with the china flu? And what if a vaccinated employee gives the flu to an unvaccinated employee?
We have shopped at two Kroger stores quite near us, Fred Meyer and QFC for over 40 years. If they do this we will be shopping at a Winco which is employee owned and another store which is a family owned grocery store. They're both a few miles farther away from the Kroger stores but it won't be that much of a bother though.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
G Mo 12/14/2021 3:23:09 PM (No. 1006916)
I'll just shop somewhere else
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Gina 12/14/2021 3:26:29 PM (No. 1006921)
The Kroger stores in my area are begging people to come and work there. They don't have enough employees. I shop early in the morning, 7 am when they open, and have to ask them to open a lane to check me out and they are a might grumpy about it too. I don't think the employees that don't want the vax will have any problem finding other employment at this time.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Island Life 12/14/2021 3:39:36 PM (No. 1006935)
Great comments. Kroger should have considered everything you have noted. Thanks for the list #11.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
lftrn97 12/14/2021 3:42:55 PM (No. 1006938)
Ok. Their choice and I can chose to shop elswhere.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Krause 12/14/2021 6:04:30 PM (No. 1007095)
Why don't they ban unvaccinated customers?
4 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
SALady 12/14/2021 6:52:27 PM (No. 1007141)
With not-my-president Lyin' Joe biden having so totally done everything to destroy our economy, and allowing so many able-bodied workers to permanently stay home on welfare or never-ending extended unemployment, there are plenty of jobs out there right now.
I truly hope every threatened Kroger employee walks off and takes one of those jobs at their competitors. Make Kroger suffer!!!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
paral04 12/14/2021 7:31:24 PM (No. 1007168)
What will they do if everyone who is not vaccinated just walks?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mifla 12/15/2021 5:28:58 AM (No. 1007448)
All the Kroger stores around me are begging for workers. This will not help.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
rabblerouser 12/15/2021 10:57:21 AM (No. 1007882)
Incredibly tone deaf, Kroger. I will add you to my list of places I used to shop.
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Boost your profits by squeezing low-paid workers; shameful, but very American. Do they have similar policies for homosexual men who contract HIV, or for people whose lifestyles cause them to become diabetic?