CNN Fires Three Employees Who Came to Job Unvaccinated

CNN has fired three employees who came to the office unvaccinated. Earlier this year, CNN announced that employees must be vaccinated if they want to return to the company premises.

Other major US companies, such as Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent company of Google and Facebook, have also made vaccinations mandatory.

“Last week, we were informed of three employees who came to the office unvaccinated. As a result, the contracts of these three employees have been terminated,” CNN CEO Jeff Zucker writes in an internal memo that has been viewed by, among others, The New York Times. “Let me be clear – we have a zero-tolerance policy in this area,” said Zucker, who writes that it was “not an easy decision” to say goodbye to the employees.

It is unclear which departments the dismissed employees worked in. Zucker expects that CNN employees will soon be required to show a valid vaccination certificate to be admitted to the workplace.

More and more American companies are introducing vaccination mandates now that the Delta variant is spreading, but the consequences for unvaccinated people have remained unclear for the time being. Supermarket chain Walmart and Tyson Foods, the largest meat processor in the United States, are just a few examples of companies that require employees to be fully vaccinated.