United Airlines will allow workers who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 for religious or medical reasons to return at the end of this month, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The move permits staffers with exemptions from the carrier’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement for its U.S. employees to return from unpaid leave or from the non-customer-facing roles they were allowed to apply for as an alternative to their regular jobs, people familiar with the decision said.
The Chicago-based airline was the first to implement (https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/united-airlines-vaccine-mandate-employees-b2032742.html) a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in August 2021, firing around 200 of its 67,000 employees who refused to get vaccinated—including six pilots.