Citigroup will lay off its employees not vaccinated against Covid-19 next week

Citigroup has announced to its staff that it will lay off employees who are not vaccinated once morest the coronavirus from January 14, according to an internal message sent by the American bank and to which the agency Bloomberg had access. At the end of October, Citi was the first major American bank to announce a vaccination requirement for its employees in the United States.

The bank is now passing the second and announcing that employees who have not been vaccinated will be placed on unpaid leave following Jan. 14, before being made redundant at the end of the month.

Currently, more than 90% of the approximately 70,000 bank employees in the United States are vaccinated or have proof that they cannot be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons.