Ronny Reyes at The Daily Mail
The CEO of UBS Group AG banking, an international financing service with more than 25,000 U.S. employees, has said it would allow workers who don’t want to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to work from home.
The move comes after more than 40 of the largest companies operating in the U.S. imposed vaccine mandates for their workers with deadlines in September and October amid the delta variant’s spread.
UBS CEO Ralph Hamers said it was the best move for his company as different country’s around the world have different rules and regulations.
‘Every country has a different legal framework around what you can and can’t make mandatory’ with respect to vaccines, Hamers said at the Swiss Economic Forum in Interlaken on Thursday. ‘The pandemic has delivered solutions to manage the risk of carrying the virus and passing it to your colleagues, and that is to work from home.’
UBS has around 70,000 employees worldwide, with more than a third in the U.S., Bloomberg reports.
Its largest offices are located in New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Connecticut…
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