Nurses at SUNY-run hospitals and other facilities represented by the Public Employees Federation will be put on unpaid leave but will not immediately risk losing their jobs if they did not get vaccinated by the Sept. 27 deadline. PEF and state officials were in mediation over terms of the state's vaccine mandate with the outcome preserving the majority of union members collective-bargaining rights, according to a PEF spokesman.
The nurses, who work at Stony Brook University Hospital, Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, Downstate University Hospital in Brooklyn, a West Haverstraw rehab hospital, a Buffalo cancer center and five veterans' homes around the state, will retain their due-process rights and will be able to use accrued-leave time while they are suspended and the grievance process plays out.
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