United Airlines Employees With COVID-19 Vaccine Exemptions To Be Placed On Leave

United Airlines announced on Wednesday that it will place employees who receive exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on temporary leaves of absence beginning next month.

“Given the dire statistics … we can no longer allow unvaccinated people back into the workplace until we better understand how they might interact with our customers and their vaccinated co-workers,” Kirk Limacher, the airline’s vice president of human resources, wrote in a memo obtained by Axios.