Aldi to pay U.S. workers to get COVID-19 shot

A small but growing number of employers are offering to pay their employees to get vaccinated.

Aldi, the German supermarket chain with operations in the U.S., said Tuesday it will give its U.S. workers up to four hours of pay to get inoculated for COVID-19.

The retailer said it’ll cover costs associated with vaccine administration and set up on-site vaccination clinics at its warehouses and offices. Like Amazon and Uber, it is also lobbying to move workers closer to the front of the line for vaccinations.

Last week, Dollar General offered frontline employees a similar incentive… and grocery delivery company Instacart said it would pay $25 to its more than half-a-million gig workers if they take time off to get vaccinated. Instacart said it would also offer the stipend to eligible part-time employees. It, too, has been lobbying government agencies to get early access to vaccines for its delivery workers.

So far, most corporations globally have been quiet on whether they would try to secure doses for their employees.