{"id":119131,"date":"2021-11-01T11:26:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=119131"},"modified":"2021-11-01T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:27:13","slug":"thousands-of-new-york-city-employees-on-unpaid-leave-pending-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119131","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of New York City employees on unpaid leave pending vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=110517\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110517\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-110517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vaccine-466x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vaccine-466x333.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vaccine-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vaccine-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vaccine.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York City&#8217;s municipal workers, who have not received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, face unpaid leave. These employees include police officers, firefighters, sanitation, etc. About 9,000 were placed on unpaid leave today, while others are awaiting the results of their accommodation requests.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under a city mandate, those who haven&#8217;t received at least one dose of the vaccine would be put on unpaid leave starting Monday, raising the possibility of shortages of police, fire and EMS workers. New York has more than 300,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>The police department, which employs about 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilian employees, reported an 84% vaccination rate as of Sunday evening, while the fire department said that 80% of its employees were vaccinated &#8212; 75% of firefighters, 87% of EMTS and 90% of civilian employees.<\/p>\n<p>City officials have considered various measures to deal with an expected staffing shortfall set to happen Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire department has said it was prepared to close up to 20% of its fire companies and have 20% fewer ambulances in service while also changing schedules, canceling vacations and turning to outside EMS providers to make up for expected staffing shortages.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio said the sanitation department will move to 12-hour shifts, as opposed to the usual 8-hour shifts, and begin working Sundays to ensure trash doesn&#8217;t pile up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has the balance of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nyc-vaccine-mandate-unpaid-leave-deadline\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City&#8217;s municipal workers, who have not received at least one dose of the coronavirus &hellip; <a title=\"Thousands of New York City employees on unpaid leave pending vaccination\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119131\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thousands of New York City employees on unpaid leave pending vaccination<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119132,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119131\/revisions\/119132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}