FDNY EMS Terminates 36 employees over the COVID19 vaccination mandate started last year under Mayor Bill deBlasio. The move came after the employees exhausted their last legal challenge to the workplace vaccine mandate.
The last-minute effort by a group of anti-vaccine municipal workers to avoid getting fired failed Friday, February 18, 2022. Mayor Eric Adams said other vaccine-resistant employees were finally getting the jab.
A Brooklyn federal judge rejected the group’s request to temporarily bar the city from terminating employees who have not been vaccinated. Similar suits failed in court, with the latest one arguing that the rules violate workers’ “fundamental religious and constitutional rights.”
“Plaintiffs have not met their burden of demonstrating their entitlement to the extraordinary remedy of a temporary restraining order,” declared Judge Diane Gujarati.
The vaccine mandate was implemented per city management after the Eastern District of New York judge’s ruling. New York City then terminated 36 FDNY EMS members for failing to get vaccinated, according to the Local 2507, which represents Fire Department EMS workers.
Public employees against the vaccine mandates received more bad news Friday when they lost on another legal front. United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor turned down a request by fourteen city Department of Education employees who were terminated after their requests for religious exemptions to city vaccine requirements was denied.
FDNY EMS Terminates 36 – The Culmination Of More Than A Year
The FDNY vaccination plan started in December 2020, but immeidately faced hurdles as up to fifty percent of FDNY responders said they would decline the vaccine. This number remained steady for many until their jobs were on the line until President Trump said to “get the vaccine.”
