Chicago mayor reiterates consequences for unvaccinated city workers as vaccine deadline approaches

Beneath the present Chicago mandate, firefighters, cops and different metropolis employees face self-discipline and even termination if they do not comply by March 13.

Its resolution time for Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Metropolis of Chicago.

With a vaccine mandate deadline approaching, a bunch of aldermen are pushing again, asking the mayor to rethink the results for unvaccinated metropolis employees.

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“Due to the mayor’s vaccine mandate had been gonna see 1 / 4 of our Chicago Police Division laid off come Monday March 13,” stated Ald. Silvana Tabares, twenty third Ward.

Ald. Tabares is one among 12 to signal this letter saying, “Town’s pursuit of curbing the COVID-19 pandemic is threatening the standard of life in our metropolis.”

Proper now, ABC7 knowledge exhibits roughly 87% employees are vaccinated, whereas 12% are nonetheless not vaccinated.

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“We would like the mayor to keep in mind pure immunity for earlier an infection earlier than she terminates or disciplines any metropolis employee,” Tabares stated.

Because the COVID-19 pandemic enters yet one more part, these 12 aldermen need the town to be on the identical web page to not take away any metropolis staff from public security assets.

“Skyrocketing crime and criminals are emboldened than ever earlier than, and residents in my ward don’t wish to see much less cops patrolling the neighborhoods,” Tabares stated.

Tabares stated the 12 aldermen additionally need transparency inside the dealing with of vaccine exemptions for metropolis employees, saying virtually all of them had been denied.

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The aldermen predict a response from the mayor Friday and are prepared to carry a particular council assembly if there isn’t any change.

The mayor launched an announcement Friday.

“Workers who fail to adjust to the Metropolis’s vaccination coverage shall be positioned in a non-disciplinary, no pay standing till they arrive into compliance with the coverage. All Metropolis staff, together with Chicago Police Officers, who fail to conform might also face disciplinary motion, as much as and together with termination. These selections shall be addressed at a person and division stage, and are being undertaken in a fashion that won’t impression public security or the continuity of on a regular basis authorities operations. Union-covered and profession service staff are entitled to enchantment a termination. For a few of these staff, the listening to is with the Human Assets Board, for others it would happen with an arbitrator. At-will staff may be terminated at will.”