{"id":5030,"date":"2021-01-13T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2021-01-15T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:03:43","slug":"dollar-general-to-pay-employees-to-get-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=5030","title":{"rendered":"Dollar General to pay employees to get COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Michael Palomba<\/p>\n<p>In what seems to be a first, dollar store chain Dollar General is offering to pay their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to be on the forefront of facilitating our employees\u2019 ability to receive the COVID-19 vaccine if they so choose\u2014and we encourage all of our team to receive the vaccine when it\u2019s available to them,\u201d Dollar General said in a <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/newscenter.dollargeneral.com\/covid-19\/dollar-general-removes-barriers-for-frontline-workers-to-get-vaccine.htm\">written statement.<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Frontline employees will be paid the equivalent of 4 work hours after they receive the vaccine, salaried staff \u00a0members are also eligible for a similar payment if they get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not want our employees to have to choose between receiving a vaccine or coming to work, so we are working to remove barriers,\u201d Dollar General<u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/newscenter.dollargeneral.com\/covid-19\/dollar-general-removes-barriers-for-frontline-workers-to-get-vaccine.htm\"> said.<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Despite the enthusiasm from Dollar General, it will be some time before most of the company&#8217;s\u00a0employees are eligible to receive the vaccine. In California, vaccine rollout is moving <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/2021\/01\/californias-vaccine-rollout-is-slower-than-expected\/\">slower than expected<\/a>, and the state is working on vaccinating healthcare workers and the most vulnerable before offering the vaccine to the general population. A &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/2021\/01\/vaccination-super-station-opens-near-petco-park\/\">vaccine super station<\/a>,&#8221; was opened near Petco Park this week in order to speed up the vaccination rollout. The facility hopes to vaccinate 5,000 healthcare workers per day.<\/p>\n<p>While many Dollar General employees are likely excited about the extra pay, some say that paying people to get the vaccine may increase skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you&#8217;re being paid to do something, people assume that there&#8217;s a reason why and that might happen here. People might assume in this case that the vaccine is riskier than it is and or that the benefits don&#8217;t go to the person getting the vaccine, but go to others, when of course they go to both in this case,\u201d <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/asnn.prod.ewscripps.psdops.com\/news\/national\/coronavirus\/as-workers-refuse-to-get-covid-19-vaccine-some-being-offered-incentives\">said Cynthia Cryder,<\/a><\/u> Associate Professor of Marketing at Washington University in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Michael Palomba In what seems to be a first, dollar store chain Dollar General is offering to pay their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. \u201cWe want to be on the forefront of facilitating our employees\u2019 ability to receive the COVID-19 vaccine if they so choose\u2014and we encourage all of our team to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - 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