Employees had faced termination if not fully immunized againt COVID-19 by Oct. 15. But they'll still need their shots.
The Los Angeles school district — confronted with widespread campus disruption and the firing of potentially thousands of unvaccinated teachers and other staff — has extended the looming deadline for all workers to be fully immunized for COVID-19.
The extension comes as the nation’s second-largest school system has struggled to fill more than 2,000 teaching and other vacancies, including counselors, nurses and maintenance staff. The hiring figures were reported Sept. 27.Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents most non-teaching employees, including large numbers of lower-wage workers, pushed for the extension in contract negotiations.
The August announcement was intended to give an estimated 75,000 employees enough time to reach full immunity on a two-shot regimen. The L.A. Unified requirement was endorsed by the teachers union and some other employee unions. No union openly opposed it. The district declined to provide information in response to multiple requests to report the number of unvaccinated teachers, whose absence would disrupt the continuity of classroom teaching. The teachers union did not immediately respond for comment
On a separate track, there’s also a student vaccination deadline for those 12 and older. An element of the student deadline also has been somewhat relaxed in interpretation.
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