Community Transit issues vaccine requirement for employees
EVERETT — Starting this week, new Community Transit hires must be vaccinated for COVID-19.
It was the first phase of a rollout from CEO Ric Ilgenfritz, who had announced it to employees prior to briefing the agency’s board of directors Thursday.
“This was a decision I did not take lightly because there’s a lot of complexity to it,” Ilgenfritz said.
President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine requirement will apply to Community Transit’s contractors, including those who operate its paratransit service, Ilgenfritz said. Issuing a similar mandate across the agency makes a uniform standard.
“It didn’t feel tenable for us to have different standards for different parts of our organization,” he said.
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