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15 Jewish Senior Services staff resign over required COVID shots
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Joanne Kombert, R.N., adminsters a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. While vaccines are easily available, there remains resistance against getting them, which may affect people’s employment.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRIDGEPORT Fifteen out of 750 staffers at Jewish Senior Services resigned last week after refusing to get vaccinated for the coronavirus.
And while that number represents just about 2 percent of his staff, Andrew Banoff, JSS’s president, said it was still difficult to see them go.
“I still think it’s the right decision and feel strongly it was the right thing to do, but it’s hard,” Banoff said in an interview Wednesday.
A tense wait for strike talks as group homes delay moving residents
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The vehicles are ready and destinations are set for residents of 200 group homes to move to safe locations ahead of a Friday morning strike of 2,100 workers. And all day Thursday, group home operators have changed plans on the fly, pushing back deadlines to relocate residents until the last possible minute.
By mid-day Thursday, Barry Simon, CEO of Oak Hill, which operates 70 of the affected homes, said he’d already twice pushed back plans to relocate 200 residents to nursing homes from 9 a.m. to noon and then until 3 p.m.