Biden Touts Tax Credit for Businesses to Give Workers Paid Time Off to Get Vaccine

President Joe Biden called on employers to use a tax credit to provide paid time off to workers to get vaccinated and for businesses to do more to boost the inoculation effort as the U.S. seeks to get shots in more arms.

Biden said the U.S. will achieve its goal on Wednesday of giving 200 million vaccine shots in his first 100 days in office, while pivoting to a new phase of the campaign by urging businesses to make vaccination as accessible as possible.

Biden called on every employer in the U.S. to offer full pay to workers taking time off to get a shot, and touted an incentive included in last month’s Covid-19 aid package that provides tax credits for workers’ wages in companies with fewer than 500 employees.

“I’m calling on every employer -- large and small, in every state -- to give employees the time off they need, with pay, to get vaccinated,” Biden said.

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