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NYC won’t rehire unvaccinated workers, mayor says
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New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams mentioned Thursday that his administration wouldn’t rehire unvaccinated metropolis staff.
Round 1,400 metropolis staff had been fired earlier this yr for failing to adjust to the town’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
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Adams mentioned, throughout a information convention at Citi Subject, he didn’t plan to rehire them.
“Not at the moment,” he mentioned, in accordance with The Wall Avenue Journal, “We’re not reviewing if we’re going to convey [them] again.”
He additionally thanked the greater than 340,000 metropolis staff who’ve been vaccinated, recognizing them for “[standing] up and [doing] the suitable factor.”
The mandate went into impact final yr beneath former Mayor Invoice de Blasio – assembly resistance from members of the NYPD.
Additionally on Thursday, Adams moved to raise the vaccine requirement for athletes and performers, together with Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving.
The exemption is efficient instantly.
De Blasio had created a loophole exempting gamers and performers who weren’t based mostly in New York Metropolis from the vaccine mandate, which Adams mentioned he felt was unfair.
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“By placing our residence groups on [an] equal enjoying subject, we improve their probabilities of successful and that has an actual influence on our metropolis,” he mentioned.
Adams mentioned he wouldn’t have made the transfer if metropolis attorneys had mentioned it would not stand as much as a authorized problem.
Though the mayor dismissed criticism – saying that exemptions for athletes and performers had been essential to the town’s financial restoration – the town’s largest police union mentioned its officers “don’t need to be handled like second-class residents.”
“If the mandate isn’t essential for well-known folks, then it’s not essential for the cops who’re defending our metropolis in the course of a criminal offense disaster,” union president Pat Lynch mentioned.
Nonetheless, Adams has been rolling again different pandemic restrictions.
On Tuesday, the mayor mentioned masks might turn out to be non-obligatory for youngsters beneath 5 in April and different rules have already been lifted.
Based on The Metropolis, coronavirus circumstances in New York Metropolis public faculties have risen markedly over the previous week, with the prevalence of the omicron sub-variant BA.2 climbing within the Empire State.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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