Mayo Clinic fires 700 workers who failed to comply with Covid vaccine mandate

[Jilly_in_VA]

The Mayo Clinic is firing roughly 700 employees who failed to comply with the nonprofit medical center's mandatory Covid-19 vaccination policy.

Workers at the Mayo Clinic had been given until Monday to get their first dose of a vaccine or obtain a medical or religious exemption to the rule. They were also expected not to delay on receiving a second dose if they had already gotten the first jab.

Hundreds of employees failed to meet those requirements and were let go, the Mayo Clinic said in a statement shared with NBC News on Wednesday.

"Nearly 99 percent of employees across all Mayo Clinic locations complied with Mayo’s required Covid-19 vaccination program by the Jan. 3 deadline," the clinic said of its staff, which consists of around 73,000 workers.

The Mayo Clinic said that approximately 1 percent of its staff, or around 700 people, would be "released from employment."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mayo-clinic-fires-700-workers-failed-comply-covid-vaccine-mandate-rcna11004
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[JohnSJ]

1. Thank you Mayo Clinic for setting an example of what health care providers should do

[PortTack]

11. Absolutely!!

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Bye, plenty of jobs in food service folks!

[Throck]

4. Don't want them coughing on my burger.

[nycbos]

3. Once again the headline is misleading.

People are only going to read the headline and think that I will look at all these healthcare workers refusing the vaccine. It is only when you click on the article you learned that it's less than 1% of the total workforce.

[Throck]

6. I'd be interested in who the 700 are?

Medical people or general staff?

[Jilly_in_VA]

14. It doesn't matter

They still put their money where their mouth is.

[USALiberal]

15. Not misleading at all, they fired 700 workers!!!

[nycbos]

16. What I meant to say was the headline was created to cause controversy.

If you only read the headline you see a healthcare organization firing 700 people people might think oh look healthcare workers don't want the vaccine. You have to click on the link to see that the mayo clinic employees over 70,000 people and this termination represents less than 1% of their total workforce, so the vaccine is very uncontroversial in healthcare organizations. But you might not get that if you only read the headline.

[Ohio Joe]

5. Good

Covidiots do not belong working in health care.

[Emile]

7. What the hell took them so long? They should have been fired

months ago! Patients don't go to Mayo to have their health endangered!

[demosincebirth]

8. Glad someone has big balls !

[haele]

9. So, these 700 knew back in October they needed at least one shot or exemption request by Jan 3.

And they still failed to get either in a timely manner? Three months for something they probably already had made a decision about.
Not sure those would be the type of worker I'd want at the Mayo clinic anyway. Hope they had already got resumes out last month...

Haele

[FakeNoose]

10. This is no great loss - the Mayo Clinic should be held as an example of awesome leadership

... in the American Healthcare field. The 700 employees who couldn't or wouldn't get vaccinated, probably don't belong working for an excellent healthcare company anyway.

[ZonkerHarris]

12. They chose....poorly.

[StarryNite]

13. Excellent.

First, do no harm.

[Busterscruggs]

17. They need to do as they're told

They are really going to be upset when they have to prove vaccine status to collect unemployment