TORONTO – Royal Bank of Canada will require employees to be fully vaccinated to work on the bank’s premises. In a memo to staff, the bank says it will ask employees to confirm their vaccination status, beginning in Canada and the United States, followed by other regions where applicable. [related_videos tag=”true” category=”true” num=”10″/] Those who are able to be vaccinated will be required to do so by Oct. 31. Helena Gottschling, RBC’s chief human resources officer, says in the memo that the decision is based on evolving government guidance and concerning developments related to the Delta variant. Before the election was called, the government said last week it would require federal employees, workers in federally regulated industries like transportation and banking, as well as many domestic travellers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Insurance company Sun Life said earlier this week that employees choosing to return to the office during an ongoing back-to-work trial must be vaccinated. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 20, 2021. Companies in this story: (TSX:RY, TSX:SLF) – Business preset from here. #gallery-7631427-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-7631427-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-7631427-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-7631427-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ This May 8, 2020 photo shows an AMC Theatre is shown in Clinton Township, Mich. AMC Theatres says it will have 98% of its U.S. movie theaters open on Friday, March 19, 2021, with more expected to open by March 26. Shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. are up more than 4% before the market open on Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) The Waterloo Brewing Ltd. logo is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Waterloo Brewing Ltd. *MANDATORY CREDIT* A Hexo Corp. employee examines cannabis plants in one of the company’s greenhouses, seen during a tour of the facility, Thursday, October 11, 2018 in Masson Angers, Quebec. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld FILE – In this March 4, 2021, file photo, a sign reading “Welcome Back Now Open” is posted on the window of a Morton’s Steakhouse restaurant as a man works inside during the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco. California lost close to 70,000 jobs in January. But new numbers released Friday, March 12, 2021, by the state’s Employment Development Department show the unemployment rate declined slightly to 9%. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, speaks during a press conference regarding its creative director’s comments about a well-known female celebrity, in Tokyo Thursday, March 18, 2021. Tokyo Olympics creative director Hiroshi Sasaki is resigning after making demeaning the comments. Sasaki was in charge of the opening and closing ceremonies for the Olympics, which are to begin on July 23. Last year he told planning staff members that well-known entertainer Naomi Watanabe could perform in the ceremony as an “Olympig.” (Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP)
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