{"id":1710555,"date":"2022-10-25T14:33:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710555"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:33:53","slug":"new-york-supreme-court-strikes-down-nyc-vaccine-mandate-for-all-city-workers-reinstates-employees-orders-back-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-supreme-court-strikes-down-nyc-vaccine-mandate-for-all-city-workers-reinstates-employees-orders-back-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Supreme Court Strikes Down NYC Vaccine Mandate for All City Workers; Reinstates Employees, Orders Back Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-supreme-court-strikes-down-nyc-vaccine-mandate-for-all-city-workers-reinstates-employees-orders-back-pay%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710555&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Unvaccinated New York City workers scored a victory Monday after a New York Supreme Court judge <a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/fbem\/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=JK5E3gx5XV1\/ku37jnWR_PLUS_w==&#038;system=prod\">ruled<\/a> the city\u2019s vaccine mandate for all city employees is arbitrary, capricious, and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams fired roughly 2,000 municipal workers \u2014 including police officers and firefighters \u2014 earlier this year who refused to comply with the COVID vaccination mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The court found that \u201cbeing vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19,\u201d adding that vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have the same quarantine and isolation guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vaccine mandate for City employees was not just about safety and public health; it was about compliance,\u201d the judge wrote in his ruling. \u201cIf it was about safety and public health, unvaccinated workers would have been placed on leave the moment the order was issued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Chad LaVeglia announced the verdict Monday outside the Richmond County Courthouse, saying the judge found the Health Commissioner\u2019s mandate unconstitutional and violated the separation of powers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s null and void, essentially,\u201d LaVeglia said in a video on the NYCforYourself Twitter account. \u201cWe just defeated the vaccine mandate for every single city employee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such employees included workers from the Department of Education, New York Police Department, New York Fire Department, and the Department of Corrections \u2014 among other city staff in various departments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor all the brave men and women who have been our first responders and have been brave through all this are now free, and you should be able to go back to work,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a> Judge Strikes Down NYC Vaccine Mandate for City Workers. \u201cIt\u2019s null and void,\u201d says attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadLaveglia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChadLaveglia<\/a>. \u201cWe just defeated the vaccine mandate for every single city employee.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PqqjhfNNCq\">pic.twitter.com\/PqqjhfNNCq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYCforYourself (@nycforyourself) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nycforyourself\/status\/1584645455459209216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the New York State Supreme Court further ruled that all employees terminated for their vaccination status would be reinstated and receive back pay for violating their rights.<\/p>\n<p>FDNY-Firefighters Association President Andrew Ansbro and FDNY-Fire Officers Association President Lt. James McCarthy told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/new-york-supreme-court-reinstates-all-employees-fired-being-unvaccinated-orders-backpay\">Fox News<\/a> that the groups support revoking the vaccine mandate implemented by city officials earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>FDNY Association officials blasted Mayor Adams earlier this year for exempting athletes and performers from the mandate, adding it should have been extended to all New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe support the revocation of the mandate for the athletes and performers that work in New York City,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cWe think that the people that work for New York City should also have the mandate relocated for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ansbro said if Adams removed the vaccine mandate for certain people, \u201cyou need to remove it for everybody in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re gonna follow the science, science is gonna tell you there isn\u2019t any danger right now and putting hundreds of firefighters, police officers, and other emergency workers out of work is not in the best interest of the city. It\u2019s not safe,\u201d Ansbro said.<\/p>\n<p>In the judge\u2019s ruling, the court said city workers shouldn\u2019t be terminated for their vaccination status and for choosing \u201cnot to protect themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a City with a nearly 80% vaccination rate, we shouldn\u2019t be penalizing the people who showed up to work, at great risk to themselves and their families, while we were locked down,\u201d the judge wrote. \u201cIf it was about safety and public health, no one would be exempt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for New York to do what is right and what is just,\u201d the judge concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unvaccinated New York City workers scored a victory Monday after a New York Supreme Court judge ruled the city\u2019s vaccine mandate for all city employees is arbitrary, capricious, and unconstitutional. 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