The office of New York Mayor Eric Adams announced on July 23 that more than 200 city workers were fired for failing to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
The latest additions bring the total number of terminations in the city to 1,752 as of July 13, a spokesman for Adams’s office told the New York Post. He declined to provide a list of departments where the jobs were cut.
Earlier this year, Adams fired 1,430 public-sector workers over their COVID-19 vaccination status, totaling less than 1 percent of the city’s 370,000-person workforce.
Some 64 percent of the employees who were fired in February worked for the Department of Education, while 101 workers were fired from the New York City Housing Authority, 75 from the Department of Correction, 40 from the Department of Sanitation, and 36 from the New York Police Department….