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The Associated Press reports:
New York City fired more than a thousand workers who failed to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the mayor’s office said Monday. The 1,430 workers who lost their jobs represent less than 1% of the 370,000-person city workforce and are far fewer terminations than expected before a Friday deadline to get the shots.
The city sent notices in late January to up to 4,000 workers, saying they had to show proof they got at least two doses of the vaccine or else they’d lose their jobs. Three-quarters of those workers had already been on leave without pay for months, having missed an earlier deadline for getting vaccinated in order to stay on the job.
Of the 1,430 fired workers, about 64% worked for the city’s education department. The United Federation of Teachers, the public school teachers’ union, said last week that about 700 of its members had been given notice they would be fired.
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NYC fires 1,430 employees, less than 1% of the municipal workforce, over their failure to get vaccinated.
It is likely the nation’s largest mass termination of municipal employees in response to a Covid vaccine mandate.
By @emmagfhttps://t.co/7b5vcJ2zpg— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) February 14, 2022