New York court orders all city employees fired for being unvaccinated to be reinstated and given back pay
A New York state Supreme Court judge has ordered that city workers who were fired in for refusing to get vaccinated must be reinstated and receive back pay.
Judge Ralph Porzio said in a ruling issued on Monday that a New York City Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygeine’s order requiring its workers be vaccinated was “capricious and arbitrary” and had violated the state’s separation of powers doctrine.
The case was filed by 16 employees of the New York City Department of Sanitation who were fired in October 2021 for failing to comply with a vaccine mandate.
It’s believed the order will also apply to the more than 1,400 city workers who were fired in February for refusing the vaccine mandate.
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