Un-Vaxxed MGM Resorts Las Vegas Workers to Pay for COVID-19 Tests

MGM Resorts has informed unvaccinated employees in Las Vegas that they want to either compensate the companion for on-going COVID-19 testing or procure their own tests.

Media reports surfaced today that Nevada’s largest employer and operator of the to the highest degree Las Vegas Strip gambling casino resorts is charging non-vaxxed employees $15 per calendar week for coronavirus tests.

Brian Ahern, MGM’s director of media relations, tells Casino.org that isn’t necessarily accurate. Ahern explained that MGM began a young testing insurance policy as of July 26. Any non-vaccinated employee in Las Vegas who is non working from nursing home must participate.

Four groups categorized by individuals’ lastly names (A-E, F-L, M-R, S-Z) testament undergo testing during an assigned week. Staffers inwards the A-E radical are number 1 up, testing for those employees underway this week.

Employees hold the choice of paying a $15 copay for onsite testing or opting to undergo a polymerase strand reaction (PCR) try on their own. With the latter, the case-by-case must fetch inward the results during their testing week. Off-site try out results can also be uploaded to the online employee portal My MGM.

Gov. Sisolak: ‘Get Vaxxed’

MGM employees who are vaccinated are required below company policy to upload their cogent evidence of vaccination to the employee portal. Once confirmed by MGM collective human resources, that team up fellow member is excluded from participating inwards the on-going staggered mathematical group testing program.

Moving forward, employees who trial electropositive for COVID-19 testament be sent nursing home and required to quarantine. Non-vaccinated workers who undertake the coronavirus, MGM notifies, will non follow paid for their mandatory clip off.

With COVID-19 cases of late on the lift in Southern Nevada, Clark County endure week reimplemented mandatory wearing of human face masks for all governing employees spell interior crowded workspaces. The Silver State Gaming Control Board adoptive the recommendation, applying mandatory face coverings for all gambling casino workers inner when the gaming flooring is busy.

Clark County’s guidance, which received the sustenance of NV Gov. Steve Sisolak (D), is inward hopes of combating the recent COVID-19 upsurge while allowing the region’s economy to persist in running.

Nevada Vaccination Rates

MGM Resorts, along with many other Strip casinos, has consistently urged employees and their sept members to get vaccinated. But at that place appears to live on-going hesitancy among some Nevadans.

Nevada has consistently lagged behindhand the subject grade of vaccination. Per the latest data, 57 percent of all US residents hold received at to the lowest degree I COVID-19 dose, and 49.4 percent are full vaccinated.

But inward Nevada, 53 percent of people get received at least ace dose, and only if 44 percent are fully vaccinated.

Nevada’s Department of Health and Human Services revealed today that on that point are 1,143 people hospitalized on COVID-19-related symptoms. That’s up from just now 97 hospitalizations yesterday and is just IV patients cancelled from lastly summer’s richly during the back coronavirus wave.