Automaker Stellantis to suspend COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. staff

By effizziemag On Jan 28, 2022

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Automaker Stellantis NV said it would suspend its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for U.S. employees, days after the country’s Supreme Court blocked President Joe Biden’s vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses.

“With more than 97% of our U.S. salaried non-represented workforce in compliance or with an approved exemption – the company has decided to suspend the full implementation of the vaccine mandate”, Stellantis said on Friday.

Stellantis said in November it required all its 14,000 U.S. salaried non-represented employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 5.

The Amsterdam-based Chrysler parent said on Friday it would continue to monitor the situation and the guidance of public health authorities to make any modifications necessary to its policy.