Requests for medical or religious exemptions were due on Wednesday, and workers who applied for those exemptions will be permitted to work if they undergo weekly testing while their cases are considered.īecause of a severe staffing shortage on Rikers Island, the city made an exception for uniformed corrections officers, giving them until Dec. Friday will be put on unpaid leave as of Monday. Workers who do not show proof of vaccination by 5 p.m. But the city’s fire commissioner said he expected about a 20 percent staffing reduction at firehouses and in ambulances because of the mandate, Gothamist reported. Lynch, the president of the police union, said in a statement, “Today’s ruling sets the city up for a real crisis.”Īndrew Ansbro, the president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, said recently that he had ordered his unvaccinated members to report to work and defy the mandate, Reuters reported.
The police union said it would appeal, and has previously instructed members on how to undermine City Hall edicts.
The city’s largest police union, the Police Benevolent Association, filed a lawsuit on Monday to halt the mandate, but a New York State judge on Wednesday denied the request. On Monday, thousands of people, including police officers, firefighters and sanitation workers, marched across the Brooklyn Bridge, holding large American flags and chanting that they would not comply. Ed Jones/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images de Blasio’s announcement of the mandates was met with protests and lawsuits.Ī large crowd, including many fire, police and sanitation workers, took to the streets in New York to protest the city’s vaccine mandate. More than a quarter of employees in other crucial departments - emergency medical services, fire, police and sanitation - remained unvaccinated as of last week. The highest percentage of unvaccinated employees is in the city’s Department of Corrections, where only half of the workers had been vaccinated. Most city workers have been vaccinated, but about 46,000 had not been as of last week, officials said. Though some of New York City’s more than 300,000 employees were already covered by earlier mandates, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last week that “all city workers” needed to get at least one vaccine dose by 5 p.m. Similar mandates in Texas, Florida and other municipalities have been met with a barrage of court challenges and opposition from lawmakers. One of the most aggressive vaccine mandates in the nation is set to take effect Friday evening in New York City, and it is expected to bring a flurry of last-minute legal wrangling, protests and possibly force some city services to be curtailed. Image A New York City police officer in Manhattan.
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