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City to offer reinstatement to workers fired over vax mandate

Ariola: ‘Too little, too late’

BY RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 11/14/25

The city will offer a second chance at reinstatement to nearly 3,000 former city employees fired for not complying with Covid vaccination mandates instituted four years ago, Mayor Eric Adams said this week. 

The terminated employees will be eligible to return to their previous civil service titles at current pay rates, but without back pay or credit for the time they were separated from service, according to an announcement from the mayor’s office. 

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