Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said today that 700 city employees are in danger of being be placed on leave within the next two weeks — 77 are already on unpaid leave — for resisting the city’s mandate that municipal employees get vaccinated for Covid by Dec.
18 and submit to testing paid by the employee in the meantime. “The good news is, overwhelmingly city employees have gotten vaccinated…and I want to be clear the vaccine mandate is not about getting rid of employees.
My goal is to keep every employee and to keep every employee safe,” Garcetti said Wednesday.Employee testing is set to begin on Friday, Garcetti said.
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