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title: "Google has threatened to dismiss employees who have not been vaccinated"  
description: "Google employees who have not been vaccinated may be placed on forced leave and eventually fired if they fail to follow the company's COVID-19 regulat"  
author: "Harsh Srivastava"  
published: 2021-12-15  
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category: "google"  
tags: ["google", "technology news"]  
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# Google has threatened to dismiss employees who have not been vaccinated

According to an internal letter obtained by **CNBC,** Google employees who have not been vaccinated may be placed on forced leave and eventually fired if they fail to follow the company's COVID-19 regulations.

The [regulation](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39205/the-aditya-birla-idea-payments-bank-has-started-operations-as-per-which-section-of-the-banking-regulation-act-1949-the-rbi-issued-licence-to-the-bank) is said to affect employees who would have been subject to President Biden's vaccine mandate, which is currently being challenged in the Senate and the courts.

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According to the memo, Google employees have until December 3rd to upload proof of [immunization](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/33853/the-2017-national-immunization-day-nid-is-celebrated-on-which-date-in-india) or gain approval for a medical or religious exemption.

Anyone who does not complete one of these things by **January 13th** will be placed on a 30-day paid administrative leave, according to the business. If they are still not **in compliance after 30 days,** they may be placed on unpaid leave for up to [six months](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11970/how-to-become-a-successful-blockchain-developer-in-just-six-months) before being fired, **according to CNBC.**

As indicated by the CNBC story, unvaccinated workers might have a few choices - while the firm anticipates that the president's directive should apply to most the representatives, people can chase after jobs that aren't covered by it, apparently ones outside of an office.

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Assuming that they find one (or as of now have one), they should likewise have the option to play out the undertaking from a distance.

**Google clearly requests** in-office representatives to be inoculated, asserting that incessant testing is definitely not an adequate choice. There is additionally the chance of mentioning a waiver.

However, the [organization](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/100623/what-is-the-role-of-the-world-health-organization-in-global-health) is still up in the air when representatives will be needed to get back to the [workplace](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/126352/how-video-games-are-changing-the-workplace) because of the **[improvement](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32074/which-state-introduces-land-improvement-schemes-act-bill-to-empower-farmers-in-state) of the omicron assortment,** it expects that a huge part of its [labor force](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62174/as-per-the-periodic-labor-force-survey-which-state-has-the-highest-unemployment-rate) will direct at minimum some work face to face.

**As per CNBC,** even telecommuters will be needed to be immunized assuming that they fall under the order.

**Both pay and immunization prerequisites have been hostile issues** inside the organization; during a corporate gathering required for everyone, leaders were found out if Google expected to support wages to stay aware of expansion (the organization expressed that it doesn't).

**CNBC additionally** revealed last month that a declaration contradicting immunization orders, endorsed by many Google representatives, was circled inside the organization.

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