More than a year after the Los Angeles City Council lifted the city’s declaration of emergency related to the coronavirus, council members today ended the policy requiring municipal employees to bevaccinated for Covid.
Council members approved an ordinance in a 13-0 vote to terminate the vaccination policy for all current and future city workers retroactive to June 2, as recommended by the city’s Executive Employee Relations Committee.
Council members Curren Price and Katy Yaroslavsky were absent during the vote. In addition, the ordinance established a pathway back to employment for city workers who had been terminated for not adhering to the policy, and others who may have left voluntarily.
Some 15 people spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting to express their support for the ordinance and frustrations with city leaders for imposing the policy on workers.
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