ASSOCIATIONINSIGHT
Portable Sanitation Association International News
BIWEEKLY EDITION FEBRUARY 3, 2021
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Vaccine Update: Encouraging Employees to Get Vaccinated…continued from page 7
Get Creative
For various reasons you may decide not to mandate vaccines, but to strongly encourage them. How can you do
that? Think about incentives you can offer that are both legal and appealing to your team. Extra time off? Plumb
assignments? Consider what some employers in another essential industry are doing: Cash Incentives.
• Two weeks ago Aldi became the latest grocery chain to
offer employees compensation for getting vaccinated,
saying it would provide workers with two hours of pay
for each of the two vaccine doses. NPR reported that
Aldi also promised workers receiving vaccines that they
would not lose pay for missed hours from work and that
it would help pay for the shots.
• Online grocery-delivery firm Instacart, meanwhile,
is offering a $25 stipend for eligible workers and
contractors.
• Trader Joe's and Dollar General are offering to pay
employees extra hourly wages to get the COVID-19
vaccine. Dollar General made it clear that getting
vaccinated is a personal choice, saying they are
encouraging employees to get the vaccine but not requiring them to do so.
Final Reminders
Each state has its own plan for deciding which groups
of people will be vaccinated first. Contact your state
health department for more information about its
plan for COVID-19 vaccination, and refer to the PSAI's
coverage of issues related to the roll out in our January
20 issue of Association Insight.
Also keep in mind that the vaccine is not a perfect
fix—no vaccine is. Although it is highly effective,
everyone should continue to practice other precautions
like wearing a mask, social distancing, hand washing,
and engaging in other safety and hygiene measures
like avoiding crowds until public health officials say
otherwise. v
A grocery worker last May in Los Angeles. (Richard Vogel/AP)
Help Protect Yourself and Others from COVID-19
Stay 6 feet from others
Wear a mask
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