Citigroup requiring COVID vaccines for staffers returning to work
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By Lydia Moynihan
August 10, 2021 | 2:06pm | Updated


Major Wall Street firm Citigroup is requiring its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus before stepping foot inside any of its major offices.

In a memo to its staff on Tuesday, the Big Apple bank run by CEO Jane Fraser told employees that they must be fully vaccinated before taking part in a return-to-office plan that will have employees back at their desks at least two days a week starting Sept. 13.

“Given the increased number of employees returning to these buildings, and the Delta variant in the US, we are taking this approach to ensure a safe workplace,” Citi’s head of human resources Sara Wechter wrote in the missive.

The mandate is a first for Wall Street as financial institutions like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley do whatever it takes to get staffers back at their desks.

The rule applies to Citi’s major offices in NYC, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia and Chicago, but not to Citi bank branches.

Employees who don’t want to get vaccinated will have to make plans with their managers to work remotely, people with knowledge of the decision tell The Post. -- excerpt, rest at link above --