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| New York City Mayor Eric Adams tours a COVID-19 vaccination site servicing children from six months through five years of age in Times Square on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Photo credit Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office |
So, here is a fine mess for ya: Mayor Adams does away with the COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for baseball players, and Broadway performers, and he does not enforce private business vaccine mandates (see 1010 WINS article below).
He does, however, enforce the Vaccine Mandate for City employees, and fires any worker who dares to ask for an exemption for medical or religious reasons (which, by the way, is protected, supposedly, by the City, State, and United States' Constitutions).
What does it really mean when the NYC Department of Education fires almost 1,000 employees without hearing from them as to why they are not getting the vaccination, or finding their reasons "insincere" (religious beliefs) or "insufficient" (medical reasons)? Is this busting the unions?
Why is happens is anyone's guess, but the impact is severe:
1. Depressed, terrorized and angry children who now do not have their favorite teacher - or any teacher.
2. Huge liabilities for those terminated, with tenure or without, who will, I believe, win all their back pay and damages in Court.
How ridiculous.
If I were a politician, I would write and push a Bill in our State legislature to recall those in office who do not provide services to their constituents in a fair and equal manner.
Mayor Adams thinks his "Swag" is cute?
It's not.
Betsy Combier
Editor, Parentadvocates.org
Editor, New York Court Corruption
Editor, National Public Voice
Editor, NYC Public Voice
Editor, Inside 3020-a Teacher Trials
Adams refuses to enforce private employer vaccine mandate
Curtis Brodner, 1010 WINS, June 22, 2022
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Mayor Eric Adams is refusing to enforce New York City’s private business vaccine mandate or carry out further inspections.The mandate is supposed to require private employers to seek proof of vaccination for all employees and to keep staff out of the workplace if they fail to get the shot.
Businesses are supposed to receive $1,000 fines, ramping up to $2,000 and then $5,000 for each subsequent violation within a year.
At the end of his term, Bill de Blasio carried out the first and only check — and the results were not promising.
Of 3,025 businesses inspected at the end of December, only 31% were adhering to the order, the mayor’s office announced Tuesday.
Despite broad non-compliance, the Adams administration said Wednesday it doesn’t intend to ever enforce the mandate and won’t carry out further inspections.
Instead, the administration wants the mandate to serve as an “education” tool.
“We have been focused on prioritizing education instead of enforcement when it comes to the private sector mandate, which is how we’ve been able to get more than 87% of all New Yorkers with their first dose to date,” wrote the Mayor’s Office in an email to Newsday.
The lax approach to the private sector mandate is in contrast to Adams’ handling of the city’s vaccine rules for municipal workers.
Adams fired hundreds of city employees for refusing to get vaccinated and launched an investigation into fake vaccination cards proliferating among teachers, sanitation workers and cops.
Though a departure from similar COVID-19 policy, the decision to defang the mandate is in line with his ongoing project to reduce fines for businesses.