With COVID cases on the rise due to the omicron variant, city workers are hopeful that Mayor Adams will be more receptive to their calls for work-from-home rules after former Mayor de Blasio required workers to go back to the office.
Eric Adams appears with a city worker during a stop in the Bronx MondayWith coronavirus cases on the rise again due to the omicron variant, more city workers are speaking out against former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s policy, first implemented in September, that required them to go back to the office. Some say they're hopeful that new Mayor Eric Adams will be more receptive to their calls for flexible work-from-home rules.
Henry Garrido, executive director of the union DC37, the city's largest public sector union, has alsoDuring a public appearance laying out his plan to combat COVID-19 last week, Adamsde Blasio’s policy, given the current COVID-19 surge. He said his team is meeting with leaders of unions and city agencies to discuss the issue. “Those places where we can effectively do our jobs remotely, we will be in conversation to examine that and I’m open to that,” Adams said.
Cedeño countered that when people work from home, they contribute more to the local businesses in their own neighborhoods. “What type of economy are we stimulating?” he asked. “The way this has been implemented has been horrendous,” the health department employee said. “People are being forced to come into the office even if they have had a known exposure and are feeling symptoms if they don’t have a doctor’s note.”
A desk worker with the Sanitation Department who is in remission from cancer said their doctor wrote a note saying they should work from home during the pandemic because they have a weakened immune system.
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