New York City placed 9,000 city workers on leave without pay as its coronavirus vaccine mandate for the public workforce kicked in
But de Blasio said agencies are filling in the gaps with overtime and extra shifts.
On Monday, some 2,300 firefighters called in sick — and FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said most of them are faking. Eighteen fire companies were out of service as a result, out of a total of 350 units. No firehouses were closed outright, but many companies were left short staffed. “This will put the lives of New Yorkers at risk and this is only the beginning,” the Uniformed Firefighters Association said in a tweet.Sanitation Commissioner Edward Grayson said he hopes to be caught up with garbage pickup by later Monday, after workers failed to pick up piles of trash bags in an apparent protest. They worked an extra shift on Sunday to clean up the mess.
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