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Southwest Airlines offers extra pay for workers to get vaccinated
Southwest Airlines is incentivizing workers to get jabbed by bumping up their paycheck.
While some airlines have recently started to penalize staff who won’t get vaccinated, Southwest will reward those who do.
They will receive extra pay if they show proof of full vaccination by mid-November, according to a company memo.
Employees who show proof will receive an extra 16 hours of pay, while for flight attendants and pilots the extra pay is based on 13 trip segments.
"If you have not been vaccinated and choose to do so, this timeline gives you enough time to receive both rounds of a two-series vaccine or the single-dose vaccine," Southwest wrote in the staff memo.
The airline will only grant quarantine pay protections for any Covid infections to staff who have been vaccinated.
Those who are unvaccinated must use their own sick day allowance.
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