The masks are again.
On Monday, main retailers and restaurant chains resembling Residence Depot Inc. and McDonald’s Corp., mentioned they’d require staff to put on masks in a lot of their shops, eating places and places of work no matter vaccination standing.
Some municipalities and native officers additionally mentioned Monday they’d begin to impose new indoor masks mandates on residents in response to new federal well being pointers and rising U.S. Covid-19 circumstances.
The strikes are the clearest indicators but that the coronavirus pandemic continues to be a problem for U.S. enterprise, and that employers are contending with ramifications of the fast-spreading Delta variant for workers and clients alike.
Final week, Walmart Inc. and Walt Disney Co. mentioned they’d mandate vaccines for a few of their staff. Different corporations delayed workplace reopening and a few which might be again open, resembling Citigroup Inc., mentioned they’d require workers to put on masks inside places of work no matter their vaccination standing.
