A New York State judge ruled that NYC sanitation workers who were fired for failing to comply with the city’s COVID vaccine mandate must be rehired, in a blistering ruling that targeted Mayor Adams’ lifting of the mandate for private-sector workers.
Judge Ralph Porzio blasted the city order requiring municipal employees to get the jab as “arbitrary and capricious” in a Monday ruling in state Supreme Court in Staten Island.
The lawsuit was brought by 16 sanitation workers who were fired in February after refusing the October 2021 mandate imposed by the de Blasio administration. Porzio ruled they could return to work — and get back pay — starting Tuesday at 6 a.m.
“We shouldn’t be penalizing the people who showed up to work, at great risk to themselves and their families, while we were locked down,” he wrote.
He slammed the Adams administration for lifting the vaccine mandate for private-sector workers and student athletes last month while keeping it in place for public employees.
“There is nothing in the record to support the rationality of … keeping a vaccination mandate for public employees, while vacating the mandate for private sector employees or creating a carveout for certain professions like athletes, artists and performers,” Porzio wrote.
“This is clearly an arbitrary and capricious action because we are dealing with identical unvaccinated people being treated differently by the same administrative agency.”
8 comments:
We need to roll back the state!
Great. Because of stupid inept politicians(D) getting off on their power tripping the NY taxpayers are on the hook again.
Yer hah! Socialism wins again. And who said that workers have no rights? Except non city employees, who have 0 rights.
Sad …
No we don’t want to be your unpaid lab rat! No clot shot for me!
I would take my back pay and tell them to shove their job.
Fired Anti-Mandate Professor Now VINDICATED!
As a conspiracy theorist banned from Twitter, we should all take a bow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UABDk_HkuCA&ab_channel=TheJimmyDoreShow
City workers are socialists. What's their issue here? If they don't like socialism, get a real job in the private sector.
Bunch of whiny bots.
@“ We need to roll back the state!”
Be careful what you wish for. Without the state, you won’t be getting your welfare checks.
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