The two internet giants Google and Facebook are increasing the pressure on their employees.
Anyone who does not get vaccinated against Corona is not allowed to go back to the office.
Google and Facebook impose a corona vaccination obligation on their employees if they want to work on site and not in the home office.
As Google's * CEO Sundar Pichai announced in a blog entry, “everyone who comes to our campus to work must be vaccinated”.
At the request of
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, Facebook said the same thing.
The home office regulation of both companies due to the increasing corona numbers were extended until October.
Google and Facebook introduce mandatory vaccination for employees - whoever wants to go to the office
Initially, the regulation of the two Internet companies only applies to the USA.
"We'll be rolling out this rule in the United States in the coming weeks and rolling it out to other regions in the coming months," Pichai said.
The provisions should then be adapted to the respective corona regulations of individual countries and the corresponding availability of vaccines.
As a result, the German locations * of Google and Facebook would probably also be affected.
Facebook will "require that everyone who visits one of our locations in the US is vaccinated," said Vice President Lori Goler.
The company plans to reopen its offices in September with a capacity of 50 percent.
From October 2021, work will officially be back from the office.
Facebook is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
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Syringe and vial with coronavirus vaccine in front of a US flag: Google and Facebook are demanding a vaccination from their employees.
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USA: Digital corporations and the US government want to vaccinate the population
Is this approach of the digital corporations Google and Facebook not discriminatory * against people who have not yet vaccinated or who do not plan to do so?
As the responsible US federal agency EEOC announced, this approach is not in doubt with regard to anti-discrimination laws: employers can require employees to prove a vaccination against Covid-19 *.
The only exceptions are for medical or religious reasons.
As in Europe, the rate of vaccination is noticeably slowing down in the USA.
In the population, only about 49 percent of around 330 million citizens are vaccinated against Corona.
The number of infections is skyrocketing again in many places due to the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.
Therefore, as in Germany, a debate about compulsory vaccination has flared up.
This will also be "considered" for the more than two million federal employees in the United States, said US President Joe Biden.
Although the Gibraltar peninsula is almost completely vaccinated, the incidence is a proud 600. A look at other statistics shows exactly what that means.
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