Citigroup announced that fire its employees who will not be vaccinated, strengthening its anti-contagion policies from Covid-19. what it reveals Reuters which cites sources close to the company. The company announced last October to its US employees that it would ask them for full vaccination against Covid as a necessary condition to be able to work. The bank then specified that it would behave in accordance with the instructions of the Biden administration, which asks all employees of companies that work with the government to be fully vaccinated. And the government remains a large and important customer for Citi, Sara Wechter, head of human resources, said on Linkedin.
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The agency Bloomberg instead it has released a note from the company where it is specified that employees who do not want to comply with the company’s vaccination obligation will lose their jobs by the end of the month. You can apply for other roles at Citi in the future but you will need to comply with the company’s vaccination policy, the note reads. Citigroup has around 210,000 employees, 70,000 of them in the US. The vaccination obligation for them is one of the most severe measures applied in the United States, and the bank’s decision is rather debatable. At the moment, according to what has emerged in recent days, more than 90% of Citigroup employees in the United States would have agreed to be vaccinated. The new squeeze of the company takes place during the new wave of infections that is hitting the United States, especially due to the Omicron variant of Covid-19.