Posted on 09/24/2022 8:37:24 AM PDT by thegagline
In a major victory for members of the NYPD’s largest police union, a judge ruled Friday cops who were fired for not getting vaccinated against the coronavirus have to be reinstated.
In the stunning decision, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank wrote that the city’s vaccine mandate on the Police Benevolent Association was invalid “to the extent it has been used to impose a new condition of employment” on the union.
The mandate was also invalid because it issued enforcement beyond “monetary sanctions” prescribed in the law, Frank wrote — ordering that all PBA members put on leave or canned be reinstated.
It would be a “gross overstatement” of the city’s Department of Mental Health and Hygiene to say it could enforce the vaccine mandate through termination, unpaid leave or suspension, Frank said. *** “This decision confirms what we have said from the start: the vaccine mandate was an improper infringement on our members’ right to make personal medical decisions in consultation with their own health care professionals,” PBA President Pat Lynch said in a statement.
“We will continue to fight to protect those rights.” *** The ruling is the second big blow against the Big Apple’s COVID-19 measures in a week, after a Manhattan judge ruled last week an NYPD cop who sued over the mandate couldn’t be fired for refusing to get jabbed.
Brooklyn cop Alexander Deletto, 43, should be allowed to keep his job after the city offered no explanation why it rejected his request for a religious exemption.
The two rulings could also set precedents for other unions in various city departments, to the extent the mandate isn’t codified in their collectively bargained labor deals. ***
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AWESOME! But really, whk would want to work for a company that will turn on its employees like they did?
Now comes the lawsuit
Good news.
Awesome, well decided.
Come on lawsuits. Kill this movement DEAD
They should get back pay.
Outstanding… hope this includes retroactive pay for them.
Now add backpay and benefits.
And for those that whimped out and quit, probably nothing. I said all along that people should stand and be fired if that is what it took. It took time, but they won. Hopefully we will see this play out the same over and over around the country.
Show me a company that WON’T turn on its employees when strong-armed by the government.
“wimped out and quit” — you mean those with the integrity to stand up for their own firm beliefs and suffer the consequences of loss of career and income?
Didn’t get the Vax or boosters. Got covid 19-84 last October. Wasn’t good but I’m fine and feel that natural immunity is best.
“Show me a company that WON’T turn on its employees when strong-armed by the government.”
Fair point—but employees deserve to treat their employers with the same respect they are given—in this case—zero, nada, zilch.
...and pain and suffering. Then have all those who took the Jim Jones Jab under duress go after the NYPD for pain and suffering too.
Then every crime victim who suffered due to police understaffing needs to sue the NYPD as well.
I hope so too for military and airline pilots who stood their ground. Really for anyone who did.
now its time to start suing for MONEY everyone involved in the covid lockdowns and more importantly the riots!
The Vax rules were created as an effort to eliminate conservatives from government employment.
While it hasn’t been put to the test yet
My pillow.
This is a good start.
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