New Delta employees can’t take to the skies without a vaccine.
The airline will require “any person joining Delta in the future we will mandate to get vaccinated before they can sign up with the company, CEO Ed Bastian told CNN Friday.
Though the company doesn’t mandate its 75,000 current employees get the jab, Bastian said he’d “strongly encourage” them to both get inoculated and hopes they “understand the risk to not get vaccinated,” he told the outlet.
Delta’s move makes the Atlanta-based company one of the largest in the country to have such a requirement, according to CNN.
Back in February, Delta set up a vaccination center at its museum which Bastian told the outlet administers about 5,000 shots daily to employees, their friends, families, and eligible children.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced late last year that companies are permitted to legally require the vaccine for employees and new hires, allowing for exemptions concerning a disability or religious reason, according to CNN.
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