Since former Mayor Bill de Blasio first instituted the mandate in October 2021, over 12,000 workers have sought religious or medical exemptions. At least 1,771 former municipal workers have been terminated after failing to comply with the mandate.
The children were seated on their dad’s lap while Medina testified against the mandate at a City Council hearing in September 2021.
“Since the mandates, we have been shunned from our place of work and from society in New York City,” Medina testified. “Years of hard work and saved money for our future have gone down the drain and will affect us on a generational level, as it’s taking away from our children and our future, and it’s taking away from our parents — who we’ve been preparing to care for in their golden years.
In September, he announced that the private employer mandate — which his administration hadn’t been enforcing,Separately, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in August that its recommendations for preventing the spread of the coronavirusinterpreted “I don’t think one can necessarily conclude that because they had COVID-19, they have the equivalent protection of someone who has gotten the vaccine,” Lee said. “There’s too much variability we’re seeing in studies to draw that conclusion.”Still, Adams’ reversals and the CDC guidance have been cited in a number of lawsuits challenging the city’s denials of religious accommodations.
“While ‘Because I said so’ may be a sufficient rationale for the parent of an inquisitive toddler, it is not an adequate justification for an Article 78 proceeding,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arlene BluthLoiacono, one of the first city workers to win a lawsuit challenging her denial of a religious accommodation, was awarded $131,180 in back pay, interest and fees. Her attorney, Jimmy Wagner, said she’s been reinstated but has yet to receive any of the awarded payments.
“That determination is a textbook example of an arbitrary and capricious finding. It is completely devoid of reasoning without which the Court is unable to evaluate whether respondents had a rational basis for it,” BluthLawsuits Galore
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