Southwest Airlines Will Vaccinate Its Employees Against COVID-19 for Free
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Last updated: 02:52 PM ET, Fri January 22 2021
Southwest Airlines Will
Vaccinate Its Employees
Against COVID-19 for Free
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Southwest Airlines revealed yesterday that it plans to provide employees with
COVID-19 vaccinations for free, once vaccines become widely available in the
U.S.
“We have teams working to identify third parties who can provide vaccines to
our employees as soon as they are able to do so—likely during later phases in
the vaccine roll-out plan,” the Dallas-based carrier said in a statement.
The company said that its workers
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comes. The vaccines themselves will
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