Covid-19 & Employment

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56 Pima County employees fired for not complying with vaccine mandate

Although more than 91% of Pima County employees subject to the county’s vaccine mandate were vaccinated by the Dec. 31 deadline, 56 workers have been fired for not complying.

Seventeen terminations occurred at the Pima County jail, according to a county memo, and the other 39 took place across other county departments.

The Board of Supervisors voted in October to approve a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees who primarily work with vulnerable populations confined in a detention facility or nursing home or who provide direct services to children or the elderly. Employees the county deemed to fit this definition were given until Dec. 31 to get the vaccine.

According to the memo, 1,883 employees have been fully vaccinated out of “more than 2,048 employees identified as working in the classifications working with vulnerable populations.” Those who were not fired were reassigned to a new position, resigned or retired.

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