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If you work at UnitedHealth Group, the company won t force you to get a COVID-19 vaccination. But the company tries hard to make it easy to get the shot.
UnitedHealth gives workers paid time off to get vaccinated and more paid leave if they suffer vaccine side effects.
It matches eligible employees with vaccination opportunities that it hears about from state and local health departments.
Equally important, in a country where three in 10 Americans still balk at getting the shot needed to overcome a worldwide pandemic, UnitedHealth offers employees in-house education that address vaccination hesitancy.
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Jim Spencer was stuck.
A half-foot of snow fell on the Austin area on the Monday after Valentine’s Day. KXAN s chief weathercaster left the TV station studios around 4 a.m. that morning. His power went out at 5 a.m.
Spencer only made it about 2 feet out of his driveway on his way back to work that afternoon when his car got stuck. Neighbors with a Jeep came to help him, but they got trapped in the snow, too. The group used mulch and a rug to free themselves and get Spencer to the station.
The weathercaster spent the next four days with little sleep, providing wall-to-wall coverage of the storms, doing radio hits and reporting on power outages, water outages, pipe bursts and, of course, the weather.
Friday will be cloudy with fog and rain chances in the morning. Temperatures will peak at 60 degrees before dropping into the 50s at night. While the day s forecast may not be too exciting, Friday will be the last day that Jim Spencer spends as a full-time chief weathercaster at KXAN.
Spencer s is semi-retiring on Friday after 30 years. He ll come back only to help during severe weather events.
KXAN Meteorologist David Yeomans will take over as chief of the weather team on March 1.
Spencer started at the Austin TV station in 1990 and decided the 30-year mark was a good time to go. But Spencer s love of weather and reporting the weather came when he was a kid.