New York Supreme Court Reinstates NYC Workers Fired Under ‘Arbitrary And Capricious’ Covid Jab Mandate‘The vaccination for City employees was not just about safety and public health; it was about compliance,’ the court concluded.BY: JORDAN BOYD
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Sixteen New York City Department of Sanitation workers were reinstated to full employment and will receive more than eight months of back pay after the New York Supreme Court ruled that they were wrongfully terminated under the city’s “arbitrary and capricious” Covid jab mandate.
“The vaccination mandate for City employees was not just about safety and public health; it was about compliance,” the court concluded in a decision released on Tuesday. “If it was about safety and public health, unvaccinated workers would have been placed on leave the moment the order was issued. … If it was about safety and public health, no one would be exempt. It is time for the City of New York to do what is right and what is just.”
One year ago in October 2021, New York City enacted a Covid vaccine mandate which required all city staff to show proof that they obtained at least one jab. Employees who did not comply by Oct. 29 were subject to termination.
Despite the fact that they continued to work full-time for nearly four months after the mandate began, the unvaccinated plaintiffs were fired in February 2022 after they received “generalized and vague denials” of their shot exemptions.
“Though vaccination should be encouraged, public employees should not have been terminated for their noncompliance,” the court wrote, noting that there was no justifiable reason for a vaccine mandate beginning in October.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/25/new-york-supreme-court-reinstates-nyc-workers-fired-under-arbitrary-and-capricious-covid-jab-mandate/
