The vast majority of employees at Fox Corporation, the umbrella company for the conservative
Fox News channel, are vaccinated against coronavirus and those who are not will be required to do daily testing, according to a memo sent out from bosses – despite some of its biggest screen stars questioning the vaccine.
A daily test is stricter than the Biden administration’s
firm mandate that businesses with more than 100 employees must require either vaccination or weekly testing.
The news came as Joe Biden was
scheduled to meet with business leaders on Wednesday, including from Disney and Microsoft, to urge vaccine mandates for employees across US businesses.
Such mandates, which have earned the president both praise and flak since he announced them last week, are expected to cover
80 million workers at large firms along with 17 million healthcare professionals across the country.
In the memo, which was sent out on Tuesday to Fox Corporation employees, Kevin Lord, the company’s executive vice-president, announced that more than 90% of the company’s full-time employees had been vaccinated, CNN first
reported on Tuesday night.
The information was uploaded on a secure system where employees could share their vaccination status, the memo said.
“Employees who are not vaccinated or have not provided their vaccination status and wish to access one of our facilities will not incur the cost of testing,” a
Fox Corporation representative told the Guardian on Wednesday.
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