Wed Dec 15, 2021 – 12:41 pm EST
CINCINNATI, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) — The Kroger grocer chain plans to punish employees who reject COVID jabs in the new year.
The grocery chain, which also operates stores under other names, including King Sooper’s and Mariano’s, has announced that staff who have chosen not to get jabbed will have to pay an extra $50 per month in health insurance costs and, if they contract COVID, will lose extra paid time off.
“The $50 surcharge goes into effect Jan. 1 and applies to salaried associates enrolled in a company health plan,” USA Today reported.
“The extra expense would cost an employee $600 per year,” it continued.
“Also starting Jan. 1, unvaccinated employees [who] get sick from COVID-19 will still be able to take their earned paid-time-off or be allowed to apply for unpaid leave but won’t get [the] extra paid-time-off Kroger [has] implemented since the start of the pandemic,” USA Today reported.
It’s a departure from the beginning of the shutdowns when the workers were hailed as heroes. “We are proud of our amazing staff who has been working hard to keep our neighborhoods fed,” one manager at a Kroger-owned store in Colorado said in April 2020.
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