Vaccine mandates | What Google's U-turn on controversial 'no jab, no job' rule means for HR

Google has reversed plans to require all workers to be vaccinated against COVID in order to keep their jobs, according to reports in CNBC.

The news outlet reports that the firm will no longer consider sacking or suspending its US employees who choose not to get jabbed, marking a U-turn on the company’s major decision which had been announced in late 2021.

A similar rules requiring any workers visiting its campuses to provide weekly negative COVID tests has also been scrapped, according to an internal memo from David Radcliffe, Google’s VP of real estate and workplace services, as seen by CNBC.

But Google will still stop any staff from visiting its offices unless they have either been vaccinated or have had their visit approved by a manager, according to reports.