COVID-19 Exemption Request for On Board Couriers World Wide
The Issue
OBC Covid-19 Testing Exemption or Modification Request Petition
Authored by:
Raymond Taber
The issue is that OBC or On-Board Couriers, Independent contractors, will be detrimentally delayed due to Covid-19 testing requirements. Restrictions based on time and locations. Couriers often pickup assets from manufacturing locations, where screenings are done on all who enter the properties, then head to the airport and are often health screened before entry into airport. Get checked in and proceed through airport security. Once through security, the head to the gate, while wearing face-masks this whole time, then hopefully make it to board an aircraft on time. Airline employees are exempt from the 72-hour time test guidelines for entry into or out of countries or have significant resources available to them for testing.
On board couriers that provide the critical essential services for industries including aviation parts, for aircraft on ground status and critically needed items for aircraft manufacturing. Also providing critical emergency services of escorting medical equipment and supplies to areas that need the assets and materials to provide and keep a high-level quality of health care services for their communities. Provide courier services of critical components for the automotive ground transportation industry to keep emergency first responders vehicles and support vehicles for all industries in proper operational service at all times.
The current restrictions in place will severely impede and significantly will reduce ability to keep these items in transit and increase the operating costs of all these industries.
It is requested to have an exemption made for hired courier contractors to continue the services contracted by licensed brokers and to encourage brokers to provide a letter or notification to the airlines that the contractor is exempt either entirely or at minimum a week in between a PCR testing session for Covid-19.
It is also requested that OBC IC be categorized as a priority in receiving vaccinations for Covid-19 and any other required vaccinations in order to render services as previously mentioned above.
The Issue
OBC Covid-19 Testing Exemption or Modification Request Petition
Authored by:
Raymond Taber
The issue is that OBC or On-Board Couriers, Independent contractors, will be detrimentally delayed due to Covid-19 testing requirements. Restrictions based on time and locations. Couriers often pickup assets from manufacturing locations, where screenings are done on all who enter the properties, then head to the airport and are often health screened before entry into airport. Get checked in and proceed through airport security. Once through security, the head to the gate, while wearing face-masks this whole time, then hopefully make it to board an aircraft on time. Airline employees are exempt from the 72-hour time test guidelines for entry into or out of countries or have significant resources available to them for testing.
On board couriers that provide the critical essential services for industries including aviation parts, for aircraft on ground status and critically needed items for aircraft manufacturing. Also providing critical emergency services of escorting medical equipment and supplies to areas that need the assets and materials to provide and keep a high-level quality of health care services for their communities. Provide courier services of critical components for the automotive ground transportation industry to keep emergency first responders vehicles and support vehicles for all industries in proper operational service at all times.
The current restrictions in place will severely impede and significantly will reduce ability to keep these items in transit and increase the operating costs of all these industries.
It is requested to have an exemption made for hired courier contractors to continue the services contracted by licensed brokers and to encourage brokers to provide a letter or notification to the airlines that the contractor is exempt either entirely or at minimum a week in between a PCR testing session for Covid-19.
It is also requested that OBC IC be categorized as a priority in receiving vaccinations for Covid-19 and any other required vaccinations in order to render services as previously mentioned above.
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Petition created on January 17, 2021