About 800 San Francisco metropolis employees have requested for medical or religions exemptions to keep away from a looming deadline for them to get vaccinated or lose their jobs, however to this point the town has not accepted a single request, a human assets official mentioned Wednesday.
About 1,900, or 5.5% of the town’s 35,000-employee workforce, haven’t complied with the mandate to be totally vaccinated towards COVID-19 by Nov. 1, mentioned Mawuli Tugbenyoh, chief of coverage at San Francisco’s Division of Human Assets.
Law enforcement officials, firefighters and different workers who work in high-risk settings have been anticipated to be vaccinated by Wednesday. Nevertheless, amongst that group 260 police, fireplace and sheriff’s workers sought non secular or medical waivers, he mentioned.
Tugbenyoh mentioned the requests have been being reviewed “as rapidly as attainable,” however wouldn’t say what number of have been thought of and denied.
San Francisco introduced the mandate on June 23, turning into the primary massive metropolis within the nation to require all of its workers to be vaccinated towards the coronavirus, until they’ve a sound non secular or medical exemption.
Even when waivers are accepted, unvaccinated workers may nonetheless be reassigned to a different position, placed on depart, requested to work at home or let go from their jobs in the event that they proceed to refuse the shot, the human assets division mentioned.
About 120 cops face termination as a result of they did not meet Wednesday’s deadline, mentioned Tom Saggau, a spokesman for the San Francisco Police Officers’ Affiliation.
“With over 90% of cops vaccinated and extra being vaccinated daily, the push to fireplace cops makes little sense,” the union mentioned in assertion Wednesday.
Police officers are ready to reassign officers in case of a staffing scarcity brought on by workers who didn’t meet the deadline, Mayor London Breed advised reporters.
