One of the biggest private employers in the United States, supermarket chain Kroger Co, is eliminating some COVID-19 benefits for its unvaccinated workers starting next year, a move it hopes will push more employees to get the jab as worries grow over the spread of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus.Kroger, which employs almost half a million full-time and part-time Americans, informed its staff last week that it would be eliminating the option to take two weeks of paid emergency leave for its unvaccinated employees who get COVID-19, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported (paywall).The Cincinnati-based grocer will also apply a $50 monthly health insurance surcharge to salaried non-union workers who are unvaccinated and enrolled in a company healthcare plan, according to a memo seen by the WSJ.
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