Workers are calling out sick in droves, leaving employers scrambling

A grocery store worker sanitizes a shopping cart at a MOM's Organic Market in Washington, D.C. in April 2020.

Omicron has left employers around the country short of workers. Sometimes very short.

At United Airlines, CEO Scott Kirby said nearly a third of the workforce called out sick on one day alone at Newark Liberty International Airport.

At MOM’s Organic Market, some of its east coast stores have had to deal with 15 out of 50 workers out on a single day.