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Over 1,400 NY City Employees Fired Under COVID Vaccine Mandate

  • People line up to receive COVID-19 tests on Times Square in New York, the United States, Feb. 14, 2022.

    People line up to receive COVID-19 tests on Times Square in New York, the United States, Feb. 14, 2022. | Photo: Xinhua/Wang Ying

Published 15 February 2022
Opinion

Most of the municipal workers receiving termination notices have been placed on unpaid leave for a few months.

More than 1,400 municipal workers have been fired in New York City for failing to get vaccinated by last Friday, according to multiple reports citing government sources.

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Included are 914 teachers and other staff from the education department, 25 firefighters, 36 police officers, 101 local housing authority workers, and 40 sanitation department workers.

Most of the municipal workers receiving termination notices have been placed on unpaid leave for a few months.

Earlier, it was reported that around 3,000 city employees could lose their jobs after the deadline on Feb. 11, which meant many of those governmental workers presented proof of vaccination in the end.

Of the about 2,400 city employees affected by the Feb. 11 deadline who had not been working or getting paid since last November, 40 percent of them got vaccinated since Jan. 31, Kate Smart, a staff member with the New York City Hall, said on Monday.

Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a group of New York City school teachers, which sought to block the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in New York City.

Moreover, the fate of around 10,000 New York City employees is pending as their exemption requests on medical and religious grounds are in processing.

New York City has around 370,000 municipal workers with the vast majority of them having been vaccinated.

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