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New York City Fires Nearly 1,500 Workers For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine: Mayor

By Isabel van Brugen

 

New York Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday that 1,430 public-sector workers in the city were fired for failing to meet a Feb. 11 deadline to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

As many as 4,000 city workers were given notice in January to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment. 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.

In a statement on Monday, the mayor suggested that the workers chose to leave their jobs by refusing to get vaccinated.

 

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