Raytheon warns of worker losses as companies impose vaccine mandate
A safety officer stands guard in entrance of a Raytheon stand on the 53rd Worldwide Paris Air Present at Le Bourget Airport close to Paris, France June 21, 2019. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
Oct 26 (Reuters) – Raytheon Applied sciences’ prime boss warned on Tuesday the U.S. aerospace and protection agency will lose ‘a number of thousand’ workers who refused to take COVID-19 vaccines, because it prepares to satisfy the Biden administrations’ Jan. 1 deadline for immunization.
“We are going to lose a number of thousand individuals,” Raytheon Chief Govt Greg Hayes mentioned in a CNBC interview on Tuesday, including that workers hiring was underway. The corporate has a complete of 125,000 U.S. workers.
Raytheon, the maker of Tomahawk missiles, final month mentioned it is going to require all U.S. workers to be absolutely vaccinated by mid-December, after the Biden administration mandated immunization for almost all federal workers and contractors, to widen vaccination protection within the nation.
Many federal contractors, reminiscent of Boeing Co , 3M and American Airways , have introduced vaccination mandates since. European planemaker Airbus , which provides helicopters to the U.S. Military, additionally joined the checklist on Tuesday.
“We would require all workers and momentary employees of Airbus within the U.S. to be absolutely vaccinated towards COVID-19 by Dec. 8,” an organization spokesperson mentioned.
Different corporations reminiscent of Gillette maker Procter & Gamble Co even have mandates in place.
To make certain, not each firm is going through a pushback from its workers. United Meals and Business Staff, the union which represents 26,000 employees at Tyson Meals Inc , mentioned on Tuesday over 96% workers had been now vaccinated.
Whereas another massive U.S. employers reminiscent of Walmart had been but to situation broad necessities, the Labor Division’s requirements would require them to introduce mandates.
Individually, Raytheon’s Hayes mentioned he expects Biden’s vaccine mandate to trigger “some disruption” within the provide chain in a post-earnings convention name.
Basic Electrical, one other federal contractor that has mandated vaccines, nonetheless, mentioned it was too early to say if the choice would have an effect on the U.S. conglomerate’s operations.
“We may have a greater learn as we get nearer to the compliance date,” GE Chief Govt Larry Culp informed Reuters.
Reporting by Kannaki Deka, Vishal Vivek in Bengaluru and Rajesh Kumar Singh in Chicago and Tim Hepher in Paris; Enhancing by Shinjini Ganguli
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