This policy will not apply to Google offices in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. In the United States, the company is complying with President Biden’s Executive Order, which requires COVID-19 vaccination for employees of federal contractors.
The American technology giant Google has informed its staff that those employees who have not been vaccinated against covid-19 they will be on compulsory leave and eventually could be fired if they are not immunized against the coronavirus, according to an internal circular of the company to which the CNBC chain has had access.
In this way, the multinational would have given until December 3 for its workers to prove their vaccination status or request a medical or religious exemption to subsequently contact those employees who, once the deadline had expired, had not provided evidence or whose exemption requests were not approved.
According to the document seen by CNBC, employees who have not complied with vaccination rules before the deadline of next January 18 will be put in paid administrative leave for 30 days, after which the company will place them on an unpaid leave of absence in order, if the situation continues, subsequently carry out the termination of the employment relationship.
“We strongly believe that our vaccination requirements are one of the most important ways to keep our workforce safe and our services running,” said a Google spokesperson, adding that “we are committed to doing everything we can to help our employees to get vaccinated. “
From the multinational they have clarified that this policy does not apply to Google offices in the EMEA region (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), since in the United States the company is complying with President Biden’s Executive Order that requires the Covid-19 vaccination of employees of federal contractors.
The Biden Administration has ordered American companies with at least 100 workers to make sure their employees are fully vaccinated before January 18 or periodic tests of Covid-19 are carried out, although the order has been judicially blocked while its constitutionality is examined in depth.
In this sense, the company has specified that it has begun to apply its vaccination policy first in the United States, and will expand it to other countries as the respective laws require it.
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