“The medical evidence supports the City and Department’s vaccine mandate as a reasonable exercise of contractually recognized management rights,” an arbitrator wrote.
More than two months after upholding Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for most other city employees, the same arbitrator on Wednesday ruled that Chicago police officers also must comply with the requirement to get fully vaccinated.
“The medical evidence supports the City and Department’s vaccine mandate as a reasonable exercise of contractually recognized management rights,” Roumell wrote in his ruling upholding the vaccine mandate.The ruling sets new deadlines for police officers to get vaccinated. They must get their first dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine by March 13, and the second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines by April 13.
Under the earlier arbitration ruling, other union city employees had until Jan. 31 to get fully vaccinated. As of last week, more than 2,800 employees at the Chicago Police Department who had reported their vaccination status had said they are not yet vaccinated, a number Lightfoot acknowledged is concerning.
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