Walmart announced today that they are making health-based changes for its employees in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The changes include taking the temperature of workers as they arrive for shifts and asking them some basic health questions. Stores will also provide masks and gloves for employees.
Each store will eventually have infrared thermometers to take employees’ temperatures, but the company warned it could take up to three weeks to get the new protocols implemented in Salida.
“Our COVID-19 emergency leave policy allows associates to stay home if they have any COVID-19 related symptoms, concerns, illness or are quarantined – knowing that their jobs will be protected,” a statement from the company noted.
