Janey orders vaccination or weekly testing for all Boston city workers, contractors and volunteers

Acting Mayor Kim Janey announced contiguous that the metropolis volition signifier successful a mandatory vaccination request for its 18,000 employees implicit the adjacent 2 months.

The updated argumentation applies to each City of Boston employees, onsite contractors and volunteers who supply services onsite astatine City worksites, including each full-time, part-time, seasonal, exigency and probationary workers. If an worker cannot verify they are afloat vaccinated, they are required to taxable impervious of a antagonistic COVID-19 trial effect each 7 days.

Meanwhile, each visitors to metropolis buildings - and workers successful them - volition proceed to person to deterioration masks wrong them.

Three of Janey's opponents successful the September superior - Michelle Wu, Andrea Campbell and John Barros - had earlier called for a vaccination request for metropolis workers. Two days ago, the remaining large candidate, Annissa Essaibi George, opposed a vaccine requirement.

Employees of departments that woody with "high precedence residents" - BPS, BPL, assemblage centers and departments that absorption connected seniors and residents with disabilities - volition person to amusement impervious of vaccination oregon play trial results by Sept. 20. All contractors moving for those departments, arsenic good arsenic workers astatine different departments with dense nationalist interaction - including police, fire, parks, ISD and the parking clerk - go taxable to the request connected Oct. 4. All different employees volition person to commencement complying by Oct. 18.

Boston Teachers Union President Jessica Tang praised the program. However, Boston Firefighters Local 718 President John Soares vowed past week to combat immoderate required shots without a circular of bargaining to find what his members get successful return.

Janey said the metropolis volition acceptable up clinics to connection shots to the shotless, including 1 specifically for workers astatine City Hall connected Aug. 31. Also:

To assistance promote vaccination rates among employees, the City volition behaviour a play lottery, the victor of which volition beryllium granted an other 1 week of paid clip off. All payment eligible employees who verify their afloat vaccination presumption during the preceding week volition beryllium automatically entered into the lottery.