iHeartMedia will become the latest media company to require its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit a negative weekly test.
Radio Insight said the company’s Chief Human Resources & Chief Diversity Officer Michelle Laven sent a memo to its employees Wednesday.
The memo reportedly states that non-vaccinated employees must always wear a mask in addition to weekly testing.
The mandates come from OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard guidelines. In addition, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in two separate challenges to President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear oral arguments challenging both Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses with over 100 employees. While those proceedings get underway, iHeartMedia employees will be able to request religious or disability exemptions through the third-party provider being used to submit vaccination statuses.
iHeartMedia is the latest media outlet to require its employees to be vaccinated as Fox News wants its New York-based staff to have at least the first doses by the 27th, and CNN has shut down its offices to those who don’t need to work from there.
