Southeast Alaska’s largest tribal organization will be requiring its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Leadership at the Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska met Friday and decided to require the vaccine. There will be an exemption process, though it hasn’t been explicitly laid out.
The executive council will also require delegates who attend the September tribal assembly in-person meeting to be vaccinated as well.
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