Posted on 10/08/2021 4:24:22 PM PDT by simpson96
Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Friday afternoon that city employees who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 will be allowed to stay on the job after Oct. 15 if they take a test for COVID-19 twice a week.
As recently as Sept. 22, Lightfoot told reporters that she would not “retreat” from her requirement that all city employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 15, despite intense pushback from the police union and a lack of agreements with other labor organizations. Lightfoot announced the requirement Aug. 25.
But with a week to go until her declared deadline, Lightfoot stepped back and said she would not discipline unvaccinated employees.
Employees who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be required to test twice every week — on their own time and at their own expense — until Dec. 31, the mayor announced.
Until Dec. 31, Lightfoot said she and other city leaders would “continue to do everything at our disposal to educate employees with true scientific data and research as well as continue our conversations with our unions and labor partners.”
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It’s on your time and dime, and only until Dec 31st.
The Hegelian Dialect in action.
Word around town is the city workers unions told Lightfoot to GFH.
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