Posted on 11/01/2023 10:03:19 AM PDT by John Semmens
In 2021 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) ordered that all city employees must get the covid vaccine or be fired. The 1,700 employees who declined to take the experimental vaccine were fired. Current Mayor Eric Adams (D) barred rehiring any of them even though the pandemic has ended.
The New York state Supreme Court has ordered that all NYC employees who were fired must be reinstated with back pay. Judge Gerard Neri ruled that "since being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19 it is both illogical and unjust for these individuals to continue to be punished for refusing to be injected with an ineffective drug. Further, state law does not grant mayors or the Department of Health the authority to order these vaccinations."
This latest ruling confirms a similar judgment rendered by Judge Ralph Porzio a year ago when he called the firings "capricious and arbitrary. It is time for the City of New York to do what is right and what is just."
Adams hasn't decided whether to appeal the verdict to the US Supreme Court. "I'm concerned about the bad example these judgments may set if left in place," he said. "Discipline within the ranks is essential for the conduct of official government business. At the time the vaccinations were mandated the scientific consensus was that the injections were needed to combat the virus. It doesn't seem right that the City and the taxpayers should now have to pay for following the guidelines of Dr. Fauci and the CDC."
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and NYers wonders why their taxes are so high... this is it.
And I’m concerned about the bad example these illegal mandatea may set if left in place. So there.
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