Nike fires fully-vaccinated manager from its Oregon HQ for refusing to upload ...

Nike fires fully-vaccinated manager from its Oregon HQ for refusing to upload ...
Nike fires fully-vaccinated manager from its Oregon HQ for refusing to upload ...

A long-time Nike employee was fired after refusing to supply his COVID-19 vaccination records to a third-party verification service, ultimately violating company policy.

Dex Briggs, 53, claims he was terminated from his marketing manager position at Nike headquarters in Oregon after a 26-year run with the company despite being fully-vaccinated against the virus.

He found the company's vaccination verification process - which gives a third-party permission to access employee vaccine records and allows that firm to share the information with others in effort to confirm the vaccination - to be concerning. 

'I have my vaccination card. I'm quite willing to show you that. But I'm not willing to give my personal information to this (outside) company, and any other company they want to share it with, without even telling me who they are,' Briggs told The Oregonian.

Nike, which has approximately 14,000 workers assigned to its headquarters near Beaverton, did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment.

Dex Briggs, 53, says he was fired from his role at Nike following a 26-year run with the company after he refused to upload his COVID vaccination records to a third-party verification platform. He is fully-vaccinated against the virus

Dex Briggs, 53, says he was fired from his role at Nike following a 26-year run with the company after he refused to upload his COVID vaccination records to a third-party verification platform. He is fully-vaccinated against the virus

Nike announced its vaccine mandate to employees in September. While it hasn't publicly addressed the policy, internal memos obtained by the newspaper revealed the policy is aimed at getting workers back onto its Beaverton campus. 

'We believe we are better together,' Chief Human Resources Officer Monique Matheson wrote in a memo.

Briggs said when he learned of the mandate, he wasn't alarmed.  

'I'm already vaccinated, so that doesn't really matter,' he thought at the time, accepting that as a private company it is Nike's right to set its own vaccine policy.

However, he was frustrated when the company moved forward with the verification process without providing details about the platform that would have access to his information.   

Briggs, who said both he and his wife have previously been victims of identity theft, also claims Nike wasn't willing to accept his vaccination card as proof. 

'What are they trying to accomplish with this policy? That should be all that matters,' he questioned. 'Why is the policy so, I don't know, so restrictive?' 

He also said he is sympathetic to his colleagues who declined the vaccines due to concerns of long-term health implications or religious objections. Nike did allow employees to apply for exemptions to the mandate however it is unclear how many were approved.   

Briggs took to social media, accusing the company of 'playing political games with the lives of its employees.' He also said, in an interview with a local newspaper, he doesn't understand why the policy has to be so 'restrictive'

Briggs took to social media, accusing the company of 'playing political games with the lives of its employees.' He also said, in an interview with a local newspaper, he doesn't

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