Starkey to offer employees $1,000 as incentive for COVID-19 vaccine
Registered Pharmacist Ken Ramey with CVS, prepares to give a COVID-19 vaccine, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, at the Isles of Vero Beach assisted and independent senior living community in Vero Beach, Fla. A federal government study last fall found that an average of one death occurred among every five assisted living facility residents with COVID-19 in states that offered data. That compares with one death among every 40 people with the virus in the general population.[AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee]
Starkey Hearing Technologies is increasing the incentives for employees if they receive the COVID-19 vaccination.
According to President and CEO Brandon Sawalich and Owner and Chairman Bill Austin, Starkey employees will receive $1,000 if they become vaccinated in an effort to promote a safe return to work for other employees and their families.
This incentive is available to all 1,600 U.S. employees, including 1,300 at the Eden Prairie global headquarters. Starkey will continue to offer its employees the COVID-19 vaccine at their on-site Wellness Clinic at their Eden Prairie headquarters.
Sawalich said, “Vaccine incentive programs for Starkey’s global employees are in the works.”
Globally, Starkey employs more than 5,000 people.