Wed Feb 2, 2022 – 2:34 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Cell phone company T-Mobile intends to proceed with firing employees who refuse to take a COVID-19 vaccine by April, despite no longer being forced to do so by the federal government.
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against enforcing the Biden administration’s mandate that private employers with 100 or more workers either require their employees to vaccinate for COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing. Despite the setback, the White House implored businesses to impose the requirement voluntarily.
T-Mobile is among the companies that intends to do precisely that, Bloomberg reports. According to an internal company memo, employees who access T-Mobile offices on a “regular or occasional” basis must take the shots by February 21 or be placed on unpaid leave, and “will be separated from T-Mobile” if they fail to do so by April 2. The company employees its own internal digital vaccine passport system called the Magenta Pass.
“While we hope every affected employee will be vaccinated and return to their workplace, we understand that for some, this means you must make a deeply personal decision,” the company’s chief human resources officer, Deeanne
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