潜水简报:
- Consumer Brands Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman asked for quick clarity on COVID-19 vaccine mandates in a送到白宫的信在星期一的早上。弗里曼写了许多这些问题 - 分解为疫苗接种的更大主题，测试要求和运营标准 - 在与其成员公司的讨论期间提出。
- The letter echoes a声明贸易团体周四推出, immediately following President Joe Biden's公告疫苗接种授权适用于至少有100名工人的公司。周四CBA声明参考去年夏天的民意调查，其中64％CPGcompanies said confusing and sometimes conflicting regulations on the local, county, state and federal levels were problematic for their business.
- CBA是代表食品和饮料CPG公司的主要贸易组织，该集团表示为大约210万重要的工人增加。本集团已支持疫苗接种，一些食品和饮料公司还致力于疫苗任务。
潜入洞察力：
弗里曼一再表示，他和CBA是亲疫苗，他重申他的信中拜登，并在周四推出的发言。但如果没有明确指导，他强调，公司难以规划持续运营的方法很难。在A.interview Monday morning随着NPR的晨报，弗里曼在整个大流行中说，CPG行业发现自己在等待数周或几个月内，以获得如何安全地从职业安全和健康管理局中安全地运作。
“Our country’s ability to increase vaccination rates hinges on federal agencies offering clear, detailed and timely guidance in hours, not weeks," Freeman said in CBA's Thursday statement. "Across the federal government, we will need to see a degree of coordination, rapid response and private sector engagement to be successful. We look forward to working with the administration to increase vaccination rates of essential workers throughout the country.”
这些问题不一定是CPG业务或制造业的独特。例如，他们问疫苗接种证明以及未被移立的员工是否将被允许予以予以办公室工作。从Covid-19恢复的人的自然免疫如何应对这些要求。如果工人伪造疫苗接种证明，谁负责惩罚。谁支付Covid-19测试，当测试需要发生以及员工是否可以获得支付时间以便在场地进行测试。联邦法规如何适应国家和地方法规，以及集体谈判协议。
一般来说，美国的员工有利于工作场所疫苗接种任务 - 65％August survey by Mercercited by The Wall Street Journal, and54% in a CNN pollconducted by SSRS. The Mercer poll is notable because it talked with 2,000 workers, half of whom were hourly, like many of those represented by CBA.
但在拜登公告之前，大多数食品制造商都没有要求他们的制造和分销人员接种疫苗。一个例外是泰森食物，哪些食物struck a deal last weekwith the UFCW and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union mandating workers to get the vaccine in exchange for a new paid sick leave policy. Meat processorJBSis piloting mandatory vaccination for new hires at some facilities,according to The Wall Street Journal。Other companies have required corporate staff to be vaccinated, including枫叶食物和牛皮纸海因斯。
Unlike many industries in which workers have been able to do their jobs remotely, those working in food and beverage manufacturing and distribution have had tokeep working on sitethroughout the pandemic. While production lines保持滚动to serve spiking levels of demand, in the months before the vaccine, many plants不得不暂时关闭because of worker illness.
Employers across the spectrum are working to弄清楚同一个问题the CBA is asking. Clarification is expected to come from OSHA in coming weeks, though some labor experts奇迹有多难these regulations will be to police.
