Wed Oct 26, 2022 – 5:48 pm EDT
NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) — New York City won’t scrap its COVID-19 jab mandate for public workers despite a state Supreme Court judge’s Monday ruling declaring the requirement “unconstitutional.” The city has filed an appeal challenging the decision, arguing the mandate that saw roughly 2,000 employees fired for vaccine refusal is “firmly grounded in law.”
New York state Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio had handed down a 13-page decision on Monday declaring that New York’s health commissioner had “exceeded his authority” by imposing the October 2021 mandate and that “[i]t is time for the City of New York to do what is right and what is just” by rolling back the requirement.
The judge consequently ordered that the 16 unvaccinated Department of Sanitation employees who filed the petition last summer be reinstated in their full capacities by 6 a.m. Tuesday, October 25, and be entitled to back pay beginning from the date of their termination.
Attorney for the fired workers Chad LaVeglia said the ruling applied to all city workers fired over vaccine refusal, and that they must therefore be reinstated and awarded back pay.
However, New York City
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