Baker orders state employees to show proof of vaccination by mid-October

Gov. Baker contiguous declared that each employees of "executive" authorities departments person to beryllium they've been afloat vaccinated against Covid-19 oregon they could get fired.

The bid does let exemptions for radical who tin amusement they person aesculapian reasons not to get shots oregon clasp a "sincerely held spiritual belief" against vaccination. The bid besides calls for termination for radical who accidental they're vaccinated but aren't.

Baker's bid does not use to authorities workers not straight nether the supervision of Baker and his Cabinet secretaries - which includes employees astatine authorities colleges and universities, the judiciary, authorities specified arsenic Massport and the MBTA and members of the legislature, but it urges them to travel suit.

In his order, Baker said vaccines person proven to beryllium some harmless and our astir effectual instrumentality for combating the perchance fatal microorganism and its clip for the authorities - the largest azygous leader successful Massachusetts - to amusement enactment and boost our already precocious vaccination rates.

Baker's implicit vaccination order (1.4M PDF).