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Nearly 1,900 Washington state employees quit, fired over vaccine mandate
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Nearly 1,900 Washington state employees have either quit their jobs or been fired for failing to comply with Gov. Jay Inslee’s (D) coronavirus vaccine mandate.
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About 53 civil servants and 74 commissioned officers, have separated from their employment for varying reasons and ways after the mandate, the press release says.
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Patrol said Tuesday that 127 employees, including 67 troopers, have left the agency due to the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for state employees.
Nearly 1,900 Washington state employees have either quit their jobs or been fired for failing to comply with Gov. Jay Inslee’s (D) coronavirus vaccine mandate.
OLYMPIA — About 3 percent of the 63,000 Washington state workers subject to Gov. Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate have left their jobs or were terminated as this week’s deadline passed.
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