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https://www.theepochtimes.com/california-health-care-provider-begins-issuing-vaccine-badge-tags_3933009.html
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California Health Care Provider Begins Issuing ‘Vaccine Badge Tags’
The University of California San Diego Health appears to be the latest health care system to require badge tags for employees stating whether or not they have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
In an Aug. 2 internal memo released anonymously to The Epoch Times, UCSD Health stated, “given the current environment,” the badge tags are an important update to COVID-19 protocols.
According to the memo, the badge tags will provide a “visual cue regarding a team member’s vaccination status,” and will be available this week for all vaccinated employees.
“There will also be a special thank you to recognize all employees for your hard work,” the memo added.
Obtaining a badge tag will require proof of vaccination, the memo added. However, if employees don’t have any vaccine verifications, “we will evaluate CDC vaccine cards on a case-by-case basis.”
The badge tag is tamperproof and will be attached to an employee’s ID to show vaccination status.
Under the new protocols, unvaccinated health care workers will be required to wear N95 masks “in all areas of health care” while under strict enforcement.
Regarding testing for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus that causes COVID-19, vaccinated staff showing no symptoms are encouraged, but not required, to receive a one-time COVID-19 test. Unvaccinated employees showing no symptoms will have to test for the virus twice weekly.
UCSD Health CEO Patty Maysent did not return a call seeking comment.
Jackie Carr, Executive Director of Communications and Media Relations, did not respond to an email about the badge tags as of publishing time.
As the debate over privacy laws concerning vaccination status continues to rage nationwide, a number of health care providers have already approved vaccine badges or stickers for their employees.
Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics in Texas, for example, began issuing green stickers for employees, volunteers, and providers who have been fully vaccinated. On June 1, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee began distributing “vaccinated” ID badges to employees.
“The stickers allow employees to be quickly identified as fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and will assist with streamlining business and operational processes such as for in-person meetings and in non-clinical areas to quickly identify employees who are fully vaccinated and not required to wear a mask,” according to the center’s website.
>“The stickers allow employees to be quickly identified as fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and will assist with streamlining business and operational processes such as for in-person meetings and in non-clinical areas to quickly identify employees who are fully vaccinated and not required to wear a mask,” according to the center’s website.
In response to the many patients asking about the vaccine status of employees, the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha said it has begun distributing ID badge stickers to the fully vaccinated.
“Since all UNMC students, faculty and staff must comply with the requirements at our clinical partner sites, UNMC also will be distributing unique ID badge stickers to individuals who are fully vaccinated and have their COVID-19 vaccination recorded in the Health Tracking System.
“This reinforces our commitment to the policies being utilized by our clinical partners to protect their patients and staff,” the center’s website stated.
Facing a backlash, Tennessee-based Ballad Health nixed plans to launch a “badge buddies” program—blue badges for vaccinated employees, orange for unvaccinated.
Ohio-based Attorney Thomas Renz, who is fielding numerous lawsuits related to the government’s response to the pandemic, including whistleblower allegations of vaccine-related deaths numbering in the tens of thousands, said he believes the vaccine badges are “beyond unethical.”
“They should be illegal,” Renz told The Epoch Times—no different than requiring “anyone who has herpes to have to wear a gold star on their forehead.”
“I’m calling on any business that wants to do this to any employee to show whether they have STDs [sexually transmitted diseases] and how sexual[ly] active they are,” he added facetiously.
Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), vaccination information is classed as Protected Health Information.
However, HIPPA “only applies to HIPPAA-covered entities—healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses—and their business associates,” according to the May 25, 2021, HIPPA Journal.
“If an employer asks an employee to provide proof that they have been vaccinated in order to allow that individual to work without wearing a facemask, that is not a HIPAA violation as HIPAA does not apply to most employers.”
Moreover, it would not be a HIPAA violation for an employer to ask an employee’s health care provider for proof of vaccination.
“It would however be a HIPAA violation for the employee’s healthcare provider to disclose that information to the employer unless the individual had provided authorization to do so.”
Renz said the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution regarding illegal search and seizure provides a “stronger legal argument” against vaccine IDs.
“I think this is very much a right to privacy thing,” he said.
While federal Equal Employment Opportunity laws do not prevent an employer to require employee vaccinations, they also do not prevent or limit employers from offering incentives to voluntarily disclose their vaccination status.
By the same token, employers may legally offer incentives for employees to be vaccinated.
>stickers allow employees to be quickly identified as fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and will assist with streamlining business and operational processes
>At this point it would be a badge of honor
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Laurene Powell Jobs (born November 6, 1963) is an American billionaire, businesswoman, executive and the founder of Emerson Collective, an organization that, among other investing and philanthropic activities, advocates for policies concerning education reform, social redistribution and environmental conservation. She is also a major donor to Democratic Party politicians, including Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. She is also co-founder and president of the board of College Track, which prepares disadvantaged high school students for college. Powell Jobs resides in Palo Alto, California, with her three children. She is the widow of Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc., and she manages the Laurene Powell Jobs Trust.
On October 5, 2011, at the age of 56, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, died due to complications from a relapse of his previously-treated islet cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer. Powell Jobs inherited the Steven P. Jobs Trust, which as of May 2013 had a 7.3% stake in The Walt Disney Company worth approximately $11.1 billion, and 38.5 million shares of Apple Inc.
As of July 2020, Powell Jobs and her family were ranked 59th in the Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires and 30th in Forbes 400. According to the same list, she is the wealthiest woman in the technology industry.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/06/heavy-is-the-crown-royal-commission-future-of-melbournes-casino-could-be-at-stake-after-alleged-wrongdoings
Heavy is the Crown: future of Melbourne’s gaming giant at stake in royal commission
Commissioner Ray Finkelstein will decide whether Crown Resorts is fit to hold a licence for its biggest casino after alleged wrongdoings
“For fuck’s sake.”
It was about quarter past 10 on Tuesday morning and Ray Finkelstein AO QC was getting frustrated with an uncooperative microphone in his hearing room.
The former federal court judge was expressing himself with economy at the beginning of the last day of public hearings in the royal commission into Crown Resort’s Melbourne casino, which he has been running since February.
The microphone at the bar table wasn’t working properly, making it difficult to hear closing submissions from Crown’s barrister, Michael Borsky QC, on what Finkelstein should recommend the state government do about the troubled casino.
The precision F-bomb and a brief adjournment restored audio loud and clear, but microphones have not been the only frustration for the man affectionately known around Melbourne’s legal district as “The Fink”.
Crown is effectively on trial for its life, with the licence to its most lucrative casino at stake, after a Nine Entertainment exposé and a New South Wales inquiry laid bare the money laundering and high-roller junkets taking place under its nose in the Melbourne money pit.
In early July, the company wrote to the Victorian gaming minister, Melissa Horne, warning of dire consequences, both for Crown and for Melbourne, if the licence was pulled – a move Finkelstein said seemed to be an effort to interfere in his inquiry.
The Fink was unimpressed. “The way you could achieve the objective of this letter and guarantee what you didn’t want to happen wouldn’t happen, is to stop the commission altogether,” he told Crown Resorts executive chair Helen Coonan during hearings on 8 July.
“That’s the only way you can achieve what this letter is about.”
Coonan disagreed. “I think it was really for more abundant caution wishing the government to be alert to the fact that there could be these sorts of things in prospect,” she said.
Finkelstein was moved, but only to sarcasm. “I’m not sure how the letter can be read in any other way other than the way I suggested it, but maybe I’m not so good at reading letters,” he said.
Further allegations arise
It might have been thought that the ills uncovered by the NSW inquiry, conducted by former judge Patricia Bergin, were quite enough for Finkelstein’s snap commission to deal with.
But Finkelstein’s team uncovered yet more allegations of wrongdoing, and he was forced to ask the government to extend the date his report is due from August to October.
Counsel assisting the inquiry alleges deliberate underpayment by Crown of as much as $480m in state gaming taxes, and a breach of anti-money laundering rules where high rollers were able to turn money deposited at Crown’s casinos into chips on the gaming floor.
Just last week Crown paid the state $61m, which it told the commission has been verified by two QCs as the amount of tax owing (Finkelstein said he wasn’t sure about that, but he was not the tax court).
The casino’s treatment of problem gamblers has also earned heavy criticism at the hearings.
On Tuesday, confronted with this ever-growing brief against his client, Borsky said “Crown has learned a lesson”, adding that it had also shown “repentance” and cooperated with Finkelstein’s inquiry.
Borsky laid out four new acts of misconduct the casino group now accepted it had committed: underpaying state gambling tax; breaking the law by allowing hotel money to be used for gambling, which he admitted was “unethical, illegal under Victorian law, and may have involved Crown dealing in the proceeds of crime, specifically Chinese currency controls”; allowing people to gamble for as long as 18 hours at a time; and failing to cooperate properly with the Victorian gaming regulator.
The company accepted its wrongdoing with “humility and contrition” and apologised to the community, he said.
Borsky begged for mercy, saying Crown had cleaned up its act and could be trusted to further reform itself.
Crown cites economic impact
For Crown, the stakes could not be higher.
Stripping Crown of its Melbourne licence would also deprive the James Packer-backed company of most of the revenue from the Yarraside complex.
In 2019, the last year before the twin tornadoes of 60 Minutes and Covid-19 wreaked havoc with its business, Crown took in $1.2bn from the main Melbourne gaming floor.
An additional $441m came from the high-roller business, which has already been shut down by allegations of money laundering and criminal involvement in junket operators, together with coronavirus restrictions on travel.
The non-gambling hotel and hospitality business contributed a relatively modest $479m. This is all that would be left out of the $2.15bn-a-year Melbourne operation for Crown’s shareholders if the Fink goes for the nuclear option and the Andrews government accepts it.
Crown says ripping this much out of its business would put its financial arrangements at risk.
In its letter to Horne, the company also suggested that pulling the licence would hurt the Victorian economy.
The casino is the state’s biggest single-site employer, with about 12,000 workers, and Crown said their jobs could be at risk if the licence was withdrawn.
On Tuesday, Finkelstein was unimpressed by the argument, saying the casino was profitable and could be run by someone else.
“If it is a profitable business, the way industry works is that someone will always step in,” he said.
He spoke of the need for Crown to face some punishment, comparing the company to a career car thief that comes before a criminal court asking to be let off on the promise not to do it again.
“It’s really not how the system works,” he said. “Not only is it not how the system works, it’s not what the public expects.”
Directors depart
Crown argues much damage has already been done.
The public exposure of wrongdoing has already run a scythe through senior ranks at the company.
Eleven directors signed a letter attacking the “falsehoods” of Nine’s “deceitful campaign” – a letter that itself was criticised at the Bergin inquiry – on 31 July 2019.
A little over two years later, only two of those directors – former gaming machine executive Antonia Korsanos and former senior public servant Jane Halton – have any continuing role at the company.
Gone are Packer’s confidant and chair John Alexander, the billionaire’s nominees Guy Jalland and Michael Johnston, former AFL boss Andrew Demetriou – who appeared to be reading from notes while giving evidence during the Bergin inquiry, former Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon, Kerry Packer’s old doctor John Horvath, adman Harold Mitchell, and Perth businessman John Poynton.
Helen Coonan, the acting executive chair who Bergin trusted to clean up Crown’s Augean stables, will leave the company by the end of the month after being criticised by counsel assisting Finkelstein.
Chief executive Ken Barton resigned in February after he was found to have misled shareholders at an annual general meeting in 2019 about the nature of information being shared between Crown and Packer’s company Consolidated Press Holdings, described by Bergin as “quite improper” and “appalling”.
Crown’s former chief legal officer Joshua Preston resigned last year after giving evidence to the NSW inquiry.
Barry Felstead, who ran Crown’s Australian casinos, left at the end of the year and his role was split, so that there are now individual CEOs for Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
The man who took on the role in Melbourne, Xavier Walsh, is also leaving the company this month following criticism of him at the Finkelstein royal commission for failing to properly deal with the state tax rort once he knew about it.
But none of this is enough, according to counsel assisting Finkelstein, Adrian Finanzio QC, who last month said the licence should be revoked despite the serious disruption doing so would cause.
“The evidence reveals serious misconduct, illegal conduct and highly inappropriate conduct, which has been encouraged or facilitated by a culture which has consistently put profit before all other considerations,” he said.
High stakes inquiry
It seems certain that Finkelstein will find, as Bergin did before him, that Crown is not fit to hold a casino licence.
But in NSW Bergin balked at yanking Crown’s ticket to run a casino at Barangaroo on Sydney harbour, which has yet to open.
Revoking Crown’s licence to run its biggest casino, with thousands of employees, at a venue that has worked its way into the heart of Melbourne’s social and economic life, is a big ask.
Finanzio also gave Finkelstein an option B – appoint a monitor to oversee Crown’s management of the casino until such time as the company is fit to hold a licence in its own right.
Nonetheless, Crown is now closer to the precipice than it has ever been.
And whatever Finkelstein decides, the company faces more pain from another royal commission now under way in Perth.
Storm clouds remain over Crown, but when he wrapped up the hearing on Tuesday, the Fink seemed in a sunny mood.
“Thank you all very much for all of your hard work,” he beamed.
“It’s been, at least, interesting.”