“Our goal is really not to discipline employees,” said the city’s HR director.
San Jose has extended the deadline forafter hundreds of employees failed to comply in time for the initial cutoff.
City officials expect that figure to rise as the city provides more booster clinic options in the next two weeks and as more employees become eligible for a booster shot based on the timing of their previous vaccines. In the case of the city’s initial vaccination mandate, which went into effect in October 2021, city officialsa day before it was set to take effect that gave all city employees a one-week grace period to come into compliance and offered employees an option to test twice weekly if they don’t want to get vaccinated and were willing to forgo one week of pay.
Those who refuse to get boosted and are not granted medical or religious exemptions can continue working so long as they agree to twice-weekly testing and are willing to face up to 40 hours of unpaid leave — the same level of discipline given to those who failed to adhere to the original vaccination mandate.by the city council last month following the height of the Omicron surge, at least one city leader is now questioning whether the city should continue pursuing it.
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