A longtime engineer with LAFD got fired for not electing to take the coronavirus vaccine.
"I love my job," said Matt Mammone, now-former LA city firefighter. "I feel like I poured my heart into it. Promoted to rank of engineer. I got to drive the fire engine. Got to do a lot of amazing things."
"This is the United States. We have a constitutional exemption and freedom of choice, freedom of religion," Mammone said. "The condition of employment was not bargaining into our contract. So to file an exemption, I would have been to condone a new condition of employment that had not been agreed upon by the union.," he explained.for about a year and a half before LAFD Board of Rights hearing. LAFD issued the following statement in response to Mammone's situation:
Today, in the case of firefighter Matt Mammone, who decided to challenge the requirements of the condition of employment, the LAFD Board of Rights determined that Mammone be separated from the department."
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