700 LA city employees may be placed on unpaid leave over COVID-19 vaccine protocol

Name: 700 LA city employees may be placed on unpaid leave over COVID-19 vaccine protocol
Uploaded: 2021-11-18T23:11:13+00:00
Duration: 3 min 25 s
Description: Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that 77 city employees are on unpaid leave and an additional 700 employees are "vulnerable" to be placed on leave within the next two weeks for resisting the city's mandate that municipal employees get vaccinated for COVID-19 by Dec. 18 and submit to testing paid by the employee in the meantime.

Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that 77 city employees are on unpaid leave and an additional 700 employees are "vulnerable" to be placed on leave within the next two weeks for resisting the city's mandate that municipal employees get vaccinated for COVID-19 by Dec. 18 and submit to testing paid by the employee in the meantime.

Posted November 18, 2021 3:11pm PST