The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that over 90% of Americans in the United States no longer need to wear masks associated with the COVID 19 pandemic. Hospitalizations are down 77% from the peak level during the omicron wave. More than nearly 35,000 people were hospitalized with Covid on Thursday, down from nearly 153,000 on Jan. 20, according to data from the Health and Human Services Department. And after two significant defeats with respect to legislating vaccinations, even the Biden Administration has steered clear of COVID restrictions. It is within this backdrop that the Mortgage Field Services Industry woke up to notifications that all Wells Fargo assets requiring person-to-person contact must only be performed by vaccinated personnel.
Questions abound on many fronts as both Labor and Management has begun to digest the latest requirements. First and foremost, Labor has become exhausted from all of the additional requirements in order to perform a typical three dollar inspection. And as Wells Fargo has been pocketing record profits, many are asking why there hasn’t been a pay raise in over 30 years. Combining this with soaring fuel prices and inflation, many are asking where the line in the sand is. When the US government has been prevented from requiring vaccinations, is it even legal for Wells Fargo to attempt implementing this policy which impacts the human body in ways not even completely known yet?
Other issues which present is precisely how is Wells Fargo going to obtain verification of vaccination and are they even legally allowed to store this type of information? And how will medical and religious exemptions be addressed? And for an Industry whose IT infrastructure is both antiquated and has been compromised, multiple times, can National Association of Mortgage Field Services (NAMFS) members even be trusted with confidential medical records?!
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Editor’s Note: After much blowback, this requirement was abandoned.
