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NYC Ending COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate for City Employees
New York City, which once had the nation’s strictest workplace vaccination rules for COVID-19, is ending one of its last such mandates, saying it will no longer require the shots for municipal employees including police officers, firefighters and teachers. The vaccine mandate, which led to the firing of hundreds of city workers who declined to get the shots, will...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Troops Repealed in New Defense Spending Bill
The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military would be rescinded under the annual defense bill heading for a vote this week in Congress. If the measure passes, it will end a policy that helped ensure the vast majority of troops were vaccinated but also raised concerns that it harmed recruitment and retention. Republicans emboldened by their new...
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COVID Rules in NYC Change: What to Know as Vaccine Mandate Ends
New York City’s strictest-in-the-nation COVID vaccine mandate covering the private sector is officially over as of Tuesday, following last week’s health board vote to drop the nearly year-old program amid ongoing pandemic progress. The decision to end the order implemented by former Mayor Bill de Blasio in the waning days of his administration was unanimous, as was health leaders’...
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NYC COVID Vaccine Mandate for Private Employers Ends
New York City’s strictest-in-the-nation COVID vaccine mandate covering the private sector is officially over as of Tuesday, following last week’s health board vote to drop the nearly year-old program amid ongoing pandemic progress.
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El Minuto 10/26 English Edition
New York City sanitation workers who were fired for not getting vaccinated against COVID-19 should be reinstated and given back pay, a state judge ruled in a decision released Tuesday.
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Fired Unvaccinated NYC Sanitation Workers Should Get Rehired With Back Pay: Judge
New York City sanitation workers who were fired for not getting vaccinated against COVID-19 should be reinstated and given back pay, a state judge ruled in a decision released Tuesday.
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El Minuto 10/25 English Edition
A pregnant teen just weeks away from her due date was shot while sitting inside an SUV in Upper Manhattan, according to police.
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NYC Ends Private Sector Vaccine Mandate
Private employers in New York City will no longer be forced to require proof of vaccination from their workers, Andrew Siff reports.
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NYC Health Department Ends Private-Sector Vaccine Mandate
The board also voted to end the vaccine rule for school extra-curricular activities. The changes take effect on Nov. 1.
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NYC Rescinds COVID Mandate for Private Employers, High-Risk Extracurriculars
Top New York City health leaders voted Tuesday to rescind the strictest-in-nation COVID vaccine mandate implemented by former Mayor Bill de Blasio in the waning days of his administration, the last signoff needed to end the program next week. Vaccine mandates for high-risk extracurricular activities in schools will end, too. Both votes were unanimous. The rules will expire on Tuesday,…
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Judge Overturns NYPD Union Vaccine Mandate
A judge ruled the mandate invalid, and said that all members of the police union who lost their jobs are to be reinstated. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.
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NY Supreme Court Rules Vaccine Mandate Invalid for NYPD Union Members; City to Appeal
A judge has ruled that the city’s vaccine mandate is invalid for NYPD members part of the police union, and has ordered all officers who were fired or put on leave to be reinstated. In Friday’s ruling, the judge ruled that the city did not establish “a legal basis or lawful authority for the DOH to exclude employees from...
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NYC to End Vaccine Mandate for Private Sector on November 1
Today Mayor Adams lifted the vaccine mandate for private businesses in the boroughs. Rana Novini reports.
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NYC COVID Vaccine Mandate for Private Sector Ends Nov. 1, Stays for Public Workers
Almost six months after a newish New York City Mayor Eric Adams told people frustrated over ongoing COVID vaccine mandates to get over it, the Democrat is officially pulling the plug on the unprecedented pandemic program — at least as far as the private sector goes. Adams announced Tuesday that the strictest-in-the-nation COVID vaccine requirements for private businesses –implemented by…
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Officials Pushing for NY to Get New COVID Booster
There is a new push to get more people vaccinated with the latest COVID booster, especially ahead of the fall and winter. Andrew Siff reports.