{"id":192018,"date":"2021-03-02T05:52:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T02:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-eateries-enticing-staff-to-get-covid-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2021-03-02T05:52:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T02:52:28","slug":"nyc-eateries-enticing-staff-to-get-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-eateries-enticing-staff-to-get-covid-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC eateries enticing staff to get COVID vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC eateries enticing staff to get COVID vaccine<\/strong>”
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Now that Big App<\/a>le restaurant workers are eligible for coronavirus vaccines, eatery owners are walking a fine line trying to encourage them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shake Shack staffers get an extra six hours of pay to get jabbed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Shake Shack won\u2019t be requiring vaccinations, we are strongly encouraging it,\u201d a spokeswoman for the New York City-based burger chain told Side Dish.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Starbucks is shelling out four hours\u2019 pay to employees who get protected against the virus, as is McDonald\u2019s at all of its corporate-owned outposts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the big chains that are doing it. Smaller restaurateurs are also coming up with ways to encourage staffers to get the vaccine \u2014 ranging from a one-shot payment to time off without pay and assistance setting up appointments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jeremy Wladis, president of The Restaurant Group, which operates Harvest Kitchen, Hachi Maki and Good Enough to Eat on the Upper West Side, is offering to pay his employees $25 each to get vaccinated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI want everyone who is willing to be vaccinated. I think it is so important. It\u2019s a good way to give back and to give people a few bucks and incentivize them to do something good. It will help the staff, the world and our business,\u201d Wladis said, adding that he now has 65 staffers, down from around 100 pre-pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not something he wants to force on workers, however.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to push it. You never know when you are stepping over that line,\u201d Wladis said, adding that if some employees don\u2019t take him up on his offer to pay them to get vaccinated, then \u201cwe certainly aren\u2019t mentioning it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indeed, while it is perfectly legal for hospitality employers to require their staffers to get vaccinated, there are medical and religious-based exemptions that could lead to problems for employers without a full-time human-resources team, said James Mallios, a top restaurant lawyer and owner of Bar Marseille and Amali in New York City and Calissa in the Hamptons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can legally mandate people to get vaccinated, but it\u2019s an HR nightmare to do it the right way,\u201d Mallios said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to make sure people are treated the same,\u201d he added. \u201cIt sounds normal and intuitive, but it\u2019s a lot of work, and I don\u2019t have 30 hours a week to spare, so we decided we\u2019d take a different approach \u2014 to positively encourage people to get vaccinated.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the past, Mallios has paid for his employees to get flu shots. Now he\u2019s paying for their travel<\/a> and time to get the COVID-19 vaccine and setting up their appointments. Around 55 people work in all three restaurants, he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to the legal issues, many restaurant workers also don\u2019t have health insurance. That could lead to problems if they\u2019re forced to have the vaccine and end up having a reaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cForget the legality, just the guilt I would feel,\u201d Mallios said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A recent survey suggests fears over side effects loom large among workers. According to the 2021 Hospitality Vaccination and Employment Status Report from Harri, a hospitality and retail recruiting Web site, 29 percent of 4,250 current and former hospitality workers surveyed said they would not get the vaccine, with 57 percent citing fears of side effects.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGod forbid we tell them to do it and something happens and they have an allergic reaction. We could be liable,\u201d said Stratis Morfogen, director of operations at the Brooklyn Chop House and Brooklyn Dumpling Shop.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we are offering paid time off for the days they get it, and if they feel tired or discomfort, we\u2019ll give them a paid sick day leave,\u201d Morfogen said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Giselle and Roberto Deiaco of Avena in Greenwich Village and on the Upper East Side say their staffers are anxious to get vaccinated because they saw up close the danger of the coronavirus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is eager to get vaccinated. I don\u2019t need to incentivize them. Eighty percent of my staff had COVID-19 last March, and four of them had really bad cases where they were violently ill and thought they would die. They don\u2019t want to go through that again,\u201d Giselle Deiaco said of her 25 staffers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, she is doing what she can to help, including booking staffers\u2019 appointments, providing them with documentation and giving them time off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote letters for them and helped book online appointments. I told them we will do whatever it takes for them to get the vaccine,\u201d Deiaco added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are supportive and cooperative and give them time off. Everyone can\u2019t wait to get it.\u201d\u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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