NEW YORK â All New York City municipal workers â including police officers, firefighters and teachers â will have to get vaccinated or submit to weekly coronavirus tests under a new mandate Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled Monday.
The requirement â which will cover roughly 300,000 city workers â is set to take effect Sept. 13, the first day of the school year. Failing to comply is likely to spell serious consequences.
If city workers who opt against vaccines refuse to wear masks indoors, they wonât be allowed to come to the job and wonât be paid, de Blasio and his Labor Commissioner Renee Campion said.
New York Mandates Vaccines or Weekly Tests for City Workers
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New York City will require its workers to be vaccinated or tested for COVID-19 every week
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In 2014, Tony Caifano and his girlfriend Jean Kim found themselves huddled in freezing temperatures watching the inauguration of Bill de Blasio. Both were steeped in New York City’s political world: She was a well-known lobbyist, he served as the political action director for a printers union.
As they sat on steel folding chairs, Caifano could feel his toes becoming numb. But it was important for both of them to be there. “It was a see-and-be-seen kind of day,” he said.
The day would later become emblazoned in both their minds for other reasons. According to Kim, it was the last time she remembers interacting with Scott Stringer, the current city comptroller and mayoral candidate who she accused last week of sexually assaulting her when she volunteered on his 2001 public advocate campaign.