Mon Sep 27, 2021 – 5:41 pm EDT
NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) – New York’s vaccination mandate for public school teachers and staff did not go into effect Monday as planned, thanks to a last-minute temporary restraining order out of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio had announced in August that the city public school system’s 148,000-some employees would have to receive at least a first dose of one of the COVID-19 vaccines by September 27, the Associated Press reported, with no option to submit to regular COVID testing instead.
“Those who continue to decline the shot must take a year of unpaid leave with health benefits or exit the [city Department of Education] with severance pay,” the New York Post added. “The DOE offered medical and religious exemptions, but is said to be granting them sparingly.”
“Rather than negotiating with Local 237 prior to announcing and implementing the vaccine mandate to avoid this very problem, the City and NYPD now place the burden of their ill-considered policy choice on the backs” of the school safety agents, reads a complaint by Teamsters chapter Local 237 regarding a potential mandate-induced shortage of almost
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