BY October 15, all employees of telecommunications group, Digicel must submit proof of Covid-19 vaccination whether partial or full to the Human Resource Department.
Employees who are not vaccinated by that date, will be required to submit a negative PCR tests taken in the preceding 72 hours every two weeks to the HR department.
These tests will be taken at the employee’s expense and antigen tests will not be accepted.
In a letter on Wednesday signed by Digicel’s Chief Executive Officer for the Caribbean and Central America Oliver Coughlan, the company outlined its measures for its hundreds of employees.
The company stated, “With the essential nature of the services we provide to our customers and our communities, now more important than ever, we take the safety of all our employees and customers extremely seriously. The task here is to protect lives and livelihoods and so we must put in place, a policy that succeeds in doing both.”
The company added that any unvaccinated employee unable to produce PCR tests will be required to take the days on which they are absent as unpaid leave or they can choose to have the days taken from their vacation allowance. If an employee has used up all their vacation days, the absent days will be taken as unpaid leave.
The policy is applicable to all employees regardless of work location and employees will not be allowed to work remotely as a means of either avoiding taking the vaccine or avoiding PCR testing. And all new hires must be fully vaccinated before taking up duties at the company.
The only exemption that will be allowed, would be for medical reasons.
And Digicel encouraged all to the vaccine that was readily available at various locations.
