{"id":349474,"date":"2021-08-09T06:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=349474"},"modified":"2021-08-09T06:01:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T20:01:12","slug":"three-banks-require-covid-19-vaccinations-for-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/three-banks-require-covid-19-vaccinations-for-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Three banks require COVID-19 vaccinations for employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU, Hawaii\u2014Effective Sept. 30, Bank of Hawaii, First Hawaiian Bank, and Territorial Savings Bank will be requiring employees to show proof of full vaccination or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new policy, the financial institutions will cover the COVID-19 test cost for non-vaccinated employees undergoing weekly testing.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Friday, it said these three banks were prompted to implement this new measure due to what it described as an \u201calarming increase in COVID-19 cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employees may submit requests for exemptions due to legitimate religious or medical reasons. Individuals granted exemptions will still be required to comply with regular COVID-19 testing and other preventative requirements. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU, Hawaii\u2014Effective Sept. 30, Bank of Hawaii, First Hawaiian Bank, and Territorial Savings Bank will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":336494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}