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Memphis Dollar General stores offering pay to employees to get vaccinated Businesses make it easier for employees to get COVID-19 vaccine By Kelli Cook | January 13, 2021 at 9:44 PM CST - Updated January 13 at 10:31 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - There are about 20 Dollar General Stores in the Memphis area and with no on-site pharmacies, corporate headquarters in Goodlettsville, Tennessee announced Tuesday hourly employees will receive up to four hours of regular pay to go take the COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccination is encouraged, but not mandated. Grocery and other food distribution workers are considered high-risk workers since they come into close contact with the public daily. ....
Tennessee grocery store workers want higher vaccine priority ranking elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV ) Tennessee grocery store workers are frustrated over their position on the COVID-19 vaccination priority list. Currently, the federal government categorizes grocery store workers as critical infrastructure, and in most states, those employees will receive vaccines in phase two. But in Tennessee, grocery store workers are grouped in phase three. TN Grocers and Convenience Store Association President Rob Ikard says that needs to change. “It’s very frustrating,” Ikard said. “For grocery store workers who have been on the front lines throughout this entire pandemic to be given the same priority as inmates in state penitentiaries and well behind what the state deems as critical infrastructure is very frustrating.” ....