Dozens of Los Angeles city employees are now going unpaid after refusing to sign notices that directed them to get COVID-19 vaccines by a December deadline, Mayor Eric Garcetti said
Dozens of Los Angeles city employees are now going unpaid after refusing to sign notices that directed them to get COVID-19 vaccines by a December deadline — and the numbers could grow in coming weeks, Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday.
Breakthrough infections among vaccinated people, like the one he experienced, are the result of waning immunity, he said. Still, he emphasized that the modestness of the illness he experienced — a mild fever and some cold symptoms — was “probably thanks to the vaccine that I got earlier this year.”are the first to face major consequences for flouting a Los Angeles
LAPD Assistant Chief Beatrice Girmala said this week that six unvaccinated employees in the department had been assigned to home for refusing to sign the notices.
Garcetti said that employee testing was slated to begin Friday. Labor unions have contested the plan: The Los Angeles Police Protective League has, calling for a court order that would prevent the city from charging employees for testing.