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Connecticut to Deploy National Guard to Address Staffing Shortages Due to Vaccine Mandate
Epoch Times ^
| 10/01/2021
| Ella Kietlinska
Posted on 10/01/2021 8:34:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Connecticut’s governor has directed the National Guard to replace state employees who will be placed on unpaid leave starting next week due to their non-compliance with the COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, announced on Wednesday that he has directed executive branch state agencies to prepare for placing their employees on unpaid leave between Oct. 5 and Oct. 11 if they do not provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or comply with weekly testing requirements, according to a statement.
Lamont instructed the Connecticut National Guard’s Maj. Gen. Francis Evon to prepare for the deployment of the National Guard if state agencies that “provide critical health and safety services” become short of staff. If deployed, qualified members of the Connecticut National Guard would supplement the operations of those understaffed state agencies until replacement employees are hired or employees placed on unpaid leave comply with the vaccine mandate.
As of Thursday, 63 percent of the state’s roughly 32,000 state employees have been fully vaccinated, 12 percent are undergoing a weekly testing regimen, and 25 percent are in non-compliant status, the statement said.
Lamont called on state employees to comply with the mandate out of “respect [for] their coworkers and the public,” and to lead by example.
“We have provided most state employees with the option to get tested weekly instead of getting vaccinated, providing more flexibility than our neighboring states,” Lamont said in the statement. “We have also provided our employees with a compliance grace period. There is no reason all our employees should not be in compliance. I continue to count on state employees to lead by example and to respect their co-workers and the public by complying with this executive order, which is the law.”
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: connecticut; lamontgotthesaline; mandate; nationalguard; staffshortage; stateemployees; vaccine; vaccinemandate
To: SeekAndFind
Ned Lamont got The Saline.
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posted on
10/01/2021 8:40:08 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: SeekAndFind
OH MY FRIGGING G! Insanity is the now the norm. I'm so glad I'm 71! My 2 shitty liberal socialist children will reap what they have sown. So will all the other commies. I'll be gone and not give one sh*t!
If a Lord is really coming back, I hope he rains hell on these evil immoral morons. I don't believe in a Hell, but into space alone with limited life support would work for me. Yes, I'm that pissed about our upside down world. Every day provides new crap.
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posted on
10/01/2021 8:45:53 PM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
To: A Navy Vet
I’m with you all the way, Navy Vet.. You expressed it how I feel it. It’s upside down to the max.
I’m also 71, a VN combat vet an am sick to death of what we’re experiencing today.
We’re facing Evil like never before. Stalin and Hitler had nothing on these evil bastards.
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posted on
10/01/2021 9:05:20 PM PDT
by
laplata
To: laplata
Sir, I admire that you've been able to hold on since your combat. So many haven't been able to, and that includes Iraq and Afghaniscrap combatants.
I seriously don't know what to tell you guys anymore. I actually cried for all those lost and maimed from Afgan when Biteme made a mess of the pullout. I'm getting choke up right now that I've watched you and SO many others waste their lives for politicians. gotta go bless you
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posted on
10/01/2021 9:24:47 PM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
To: A Navy Vet
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posted on
10/01/2021 9:30:19 PM PDT
by
laplata
To: A Navy Vet
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posted on
10/01/2021 9:30:42 PM PDT
by
laplata
To: SeekAndFind
A government run by the pointy haired Dilbert boss.
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posted on
10/01/2021 10:10:01 PM PDT
by
lurk
( )
To: SeekAndFind
Join the Army, and do Democrat Governors’ political chores.
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posted on
10/01/2021 10:15:21 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: SeekAndFind
So carrying a higher viral load is now a requirement to work for the state.
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posted on
10/02/2021 1:13:10 AM PDT
by
Track9
(Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
To: SeekAndFind
“by complying with this executive order, which is the law.”
As a refugee from deep blue Ct, the really sickening fact of this article is that a tiny state like Ct is burdened with 32,000 unionized state workers. The unions own the governor. They can defy him at will.
To: SeekAndFind
My Nutmegger ancestors are spinning.
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posted on
10/02/2021 2:47:29 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
To: mewzilla
If they are pulling NG personal to do the work who is doing the work that the NG were doing before they were conscripted to work in the hospitals? The personal they are pulling in have to be professionals in the hospital world to do the job. Isn’t it like borrowing from Peter to pay Paul?
To: oldasrocks
Oldasrocks....shhh. You’re using logic and that’s forbidden I clown world
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posted on
10/02/2021 4:13:40 AM PDT
by
Josa
To: oldasrocks
Gunnery Sargent, this woman needs open heart surgery. See to it.
To: SeekAndFind
MANY of us kept warning the Dems would go a large step TOO FAR.,
PUSHBACK is coming & it won’t be polite.
To: laplata; A Navy Vet
I am an ex medic in the US Army. I really want to see some lead flying or putting all those lamposts to good use.
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posted on
10/02/2021 2:39:09 PM PDT
by
ex91B10
(Just because you can doesn't mean you should. )
To: ex91B10
👍 Same here. With no mercy.
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posted on
10/02/2021 2:47:06 PM PDT
by
laplata
To: SeekAndFind
The Luciferian Path.
CERN
UN Black Cube
Mecca Black Cube
Nephilim
Blood invasion
❎📌
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posted on
10/02/2021 2:51:21 PM PDT
by
Varsity Flight
( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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