{"id":1296604,"date":"2022-02-14T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1296604"},"modified":"2022-02-14T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T20:23:21","slug":"walmart-drops-mask-requirements-for-vaccinated-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walmart-drops-mask-requirements-for-vaccinated-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Drops Mask Requirements for Vaccinated Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwalmart-drops-mask-requirements-for-vaccinated-workers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1296604&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Walmart is the latest major company to ease mask requirements, dropping the rule for vaccinated workers.<\/p>\n<p>In a Friday memo to United States employees \u2014 roughly 1.6 million \u2014 the company announced that it will no longer force vaccinated workers to wear masks, although they will be subject to local restrictions. Employees working in \u201cclinical care settings\u201d will still be required to wear a mask, as will unvaccinated workers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/coronavirus\/2022\/02\/walmart-sams-club-end-mask-mandate-for-vaccinated-workers.html\">AL<\/a>, \u201cBeginning on Feb. 28, employees \u2014 save for those in California, New York and Virginia \u2014 will no longer need to take part in the daily health screening, though all workers are urged to \u2018monitor their own health and take appropriate actions \u2026 before each workday&#8217;\u201d as well:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">The company on March 31 also will end its 2-year COVID-19 Emergency Leave Policy \u201cwhich provides paid leave for COVID-19-related absences in addition to our regular PTO policies,\u201d according to the memo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">The news comes as several states loosen masking requirements, including New Jersey, Delaware, and Illinois. Despite that, President Joe Biden still believes lifting of restrictions is \u201cprobably premature\u201d despite initially touting \u201cjust\u201d 100 days of masking prior to taking office.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17374554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17374554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/biden-president-joe-biden-takes-mask-he-arrives-speak-coronavirus-pandemic-east-of-e1644866316195.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden takes off his mask as he arrives to speak about the coronavirus pandemic in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo\/Susan Walsh)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Meanwhile, Republicans who have been at the forefront of battling coronavirus restrictions have warned that the move is simply politics at play as the science has not changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when you start to see them kind of reevaluate or say all this, just understand this. The science didn\u2019t change. The medical science didn\u2019t change. The political science changed. They feel the heat,\u201d Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/09\/desantis-rips-blue-state-governors-science-didnt-change-the-political-science-changed\/\">said<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey know that voters have been tired of perpetual lockdown policies. They know that they have basically offered no offramp, and they know that they\u2019re fixing to be whooped at the polls, so that\u2019s causing the epiphany,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) made the same observation during a speech on the Senate floor last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes I hear the phrase, \u2018the science changed.\u2019 The science hasn\u2019t changed. What\u2019s changed is that there\u2019s an election coming, and Democrats have seen the polling on this question,\u201d Cotton said, adding that Democrats are \u201crunning scared and they want to pretend that they didn\u2019t force your kid to wear a mask for two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart is the latest major company to ease mask requirements, dropping the rule for vaccinated workers. 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