Editor's note: A previous version of this story reported that 91 employees were fired from the City of Portland Tuesday. Updated data from the city shows that only 90 staffers were let go due to their vaccination status. One hundred and twenty-three City of Portland and Multnomah County employees were fired Tuesday for choosing not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit an exemption by October 18, the deadline for the vaccine mandate for government.
Over one hundred City of Portland employees and 73 Multnomah County employees will be fired if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19—or receive an exemption—by Monday, the day that both governments' staff vaccine mandates goes into effect. According to data released by the county this week, 92 percent of the county’s 5,601 employees are fully vaccinated and about 7 percent submitted an acceptable exemption. Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury issued the vaccine mandate in.
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Multnomah County Commissioner Lori Stegmann will run for Multnomah County Chair in the May 2022 primary race, the commissioner announced Monday. Stegmann said she is running for the position because she wants to see Multnomah County provide more housing security services for renters and unhoused people, as well as support small businesses who have been hit hard by the pandemic. “My lived experience as an immigrant, a woman of color, and someone who grew up.
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