Delta Air Lines to charge unvaccinated employees extra 200 for health insurance
Delta Air Lines will charge unvaccinated employees an extra $200 a month for company health insurance in an effort to offset the costs of staff being hospitalised for the coronavirus.
The company said that all employees recently hospitalised by the virus had been unvaccinated, and that an average hospital stay costs the company $50,000.
"This surcharge will be necessary to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company," CEO Ed Bastian said on Wednesday.
Unvaccinated employees will also be required to take a Covid test each week while cases are high.
The measure follows similar efforts from other airlines aimed at addressing the rising cases of the delta variant across the country. United Airlines requires all of its employees to be vaccinated by 27 September or face termination.
Around 150,000 new cases of the coronavirus are being reported each day in the US, the highest level since January.
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