However, employers will be free to continue requiring workers to get vaccinated as a condition of employment. “This puts the choice in the hands of New York businesses,” the mayor said.
New York City will lift its private-sector COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Nov. 1 but will continue to require city employees to be vaccinated against the virus.
Almost six months after a newish New York City Mayor Eric Adams told people frustrated over ongoing COVID vaccine mandates to get over it, the Democrat is officially pulling the plug on the unprecedented pandemic program — at least as far as the private sector goes.
New York City will lift its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private-sector employers on Nov. 1, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday in another sign of the city’s gradual return to pre-pandemic norms.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and health officials announced Tuesday that the COVID vaccine mandate for the private sector would become optional in November.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday a citywide COVID-19 vaccine mandate on private-sector workers and students who participate in extracurricular activities will become optional on Nov. 1.
