A week after top Hollywood guilds agreed on a policy that allows producers to require vaccinations for certain members of the cast and crew, the Writers Guild of America East is weighing in on vacc…
The letter also stated that employers running in-person writers rooms should implement pandemic-era safety standards “at least as stringent as state, local, and federal public health and OSHA orders and the protocols negotiated by our sister unions” and distribute copies of COVID-19 safety protocols to onsite employees.
Finally, the union recommended that writers be allowed to work remotely even if their room is operating on-site: “We don’t think willingness to participate in an in-person writers’ room should be a condition of employment at this time. This is also something most survey respondents favored. It gives writers additional safety protection and, potentially, additional employment opportunities.”
These recommendations arrive just as the Delta variant is accounting for 83 percent of new COVID-19 cases while 97 percent of people who are hospitalized with the illness are unvaccinated, per the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
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