The issue can be particularly complicated for many small businesses.
Tiara Felix, a lab worker at Metro Optics eyewear, said she is skeptical about getting vaccinated and would likely quit if the company forced her to do so.
The new rules followed weeks of pressure by city leaders on private businesses to mandate vaccines or frequent testing as a condition of employment. A growing number of companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and the fitness chain Equinox, have announced that employees must be vaccinated to return to the office.
John Bonizio, 63, owner of Metro Optics, was ecstatic when he learned in January that optometrists and their staff members would be among the first groups eligible for the vaccine. During the chaotic early days of the rollout, Bonizio found a hospital with plenty of vaccine appointments available and offered to schedule them for every employee.
One employee said she was concerned because she thought a vaccine had caused the characters in the film “I Am Legend” to turn into zombies. People opposed to vaccines have circulated that claim about the movie’s plot widely on social media. But the plague that turned people into zombies in the movie was caused by a genetically reprogrammed virus, not by a vaccine.
CNN said on Thursday that it had fired three employees for going to the office unvaccinated, one of the first known examples of a major American corporation terminating workers for ignoring a workplace vaccine mandate. In March, Metro Optics announced a new requirement. Anyone who was still unvaccinated would have to submit to weekly COVID-19 tests.
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