Eric Adams granted the vaccine exemption for performers and athletes solely after fielding strain from the Brooklyn Nets, Mets and Yankees.
Matthew McDermott for NY Submit
A Staten Island pol is amassing Metropolis Council assist to formally demand Mayor Eric Adams rehire the 1,430 municipal staff canned for refusing to get vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19.
Council Minority Chief Joseph Borelli might be introducing a nonbinding decision at Thursday’s assembly calling on Adams to rehire employees fired in February for failing to satisfy a vaccine-mandate deadline requiring proof of at the very least one shot. The decision, which already has bipartisan backing from at the very least seven different Council members, additionally calls for personal companies rehire staff who have been fired for failing to get jabbed.
The Staten Island Republican instructed The Submit he believes the Council should ship an apolitical message that it believes Adams’ determination final month to exempt professional athletes and different performers from the mandate is unfair as a result of rank-and-file employees stay unemployed for snubbing the identical guidelines.
“There must be fairness,” Borelli mentioned. “If we’re keen to tolerate dangers for athletes and performers, we should tolerate the identical dangers for all members of our workforce – be it the personal sector or public.”
Different Council members on board embrace Farah Louis (D-Brooklyn) and David Carr (R-Staten Island).
Adams granted the exemption solely after fielding strain from the Brooklyn Nets, Mets and Yankees. The groups lobbied for the change, saying it was unfair that guidelines Adams inherited from former Mayor Invoice de Blasio allowed unvaccinated visiting athletes to play in metropolis venues, however Nets star Kyrie Irving and different city-based unvaccinated athletes couldn’t play house video games.
Paul DiGiacamo, president of the Detectives Endowment Affiliation, mentioned he hopes Borelli’s laws convinces the mayor to rehire the union’s unvaccinated investigators.
“Any detective who left took years of expertise with [them],” he mentioned. “Town is in disaster. We have to convey again the detectives.”
Extra firings could possibly be coming.
Hundreds of metropolis employees who utilized for medical or non secular lodging or exemptions from the vaccination requirement have but to get a choice.
Reps for Mayor Adams and Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queens) mentioned their places of work have to overview the decision earlier than commenting.
Nonetheless, the speaker issued a March 24 assertion saying the mayor’s exemption “sends the incorrect message that higher-paid employees and celebrities are being valued as extra necessary than our devoted civil servants.”
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