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BART incentivizes employees with paid holidays to get vaccinated

By KTVU Staff
Published  August 17, 2021 11:59am PDT
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BART offers vaccine incentives for employees

BART employees will get two extra paid holidays if they get vaccinated by September 15.

OAKLAND, Calif. - BART has become the latest workplace to give employees incentives to get the COVID vaccine.  

BART will give two extra paid holidays to employees who get vaccinated by Sept. 15, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. 

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While the company currently does not require employees to get the vaccine, some of BART's Board of Directors supported having a mandate.

At least 77% of BART's 4,000 plus employees have been vaccinated, Alicia Trost, BART's spokeswoman told the Chronicle.