HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Starting tomorrow, Hawaiian Airlines will no longer require its more than 7,000 employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. And the carrier is welcoming back unvaccinated employees who chose to take a leave of absence. But the loosened policy doesn’t benefit everyone.
During the pandemic, Hawaiian let unvaccinated employees go on unpaid leave if they promised to get the shot by January 2023. Those employees are being allowed back without penalty. But about 100 workers who refused to make that promise were fired. They can come back too, but they have to reapply without credit for their seniority. They say that’s not fair and not legal.
Among those fired in January, Carol Lamse, a flight attendant for 50 years. Lamse says she wants to go back to work but having to start at the bottom with new hires is not an option and disrespects her decades of service.
“It’s hurtful. It’s unnecessary. I don’t know why they’re doing it that way. It’s not the company I remember,” she said. “There was a sense of ohana, there was a sense of working together to make it work, you know, through the bankruptcy through so many stumbles. We made it work.”
Because she donated one of her kidneys to a co-worker – she said that she was immune compromised, but Hawaiian denied her requests for medical and religious exemptions.
33-year veteran Dwayne Tuzon was also denied.
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