Housing Authority Of Baltimore City Announces Mandatory Vaccination Policy For Workers

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Housing Authority of Baltimore City connected Monday mandated each its 650 employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 1, unless they are approved to not get the changeable owed to a morganatic aesculapian crushed oregon spiritual belief.

In a statement, HABC president and CEO Janet Abrahams cited the debased vaccination among workers arsenic a crushed for the mandate.

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“We person spent months repeatedly stressing to our employees the value of getting the shots, yet lone astir fractional person submitted impervious of vaccination,” Abrahams said. “Now with Covid cases increasing, our Board of Commissioners and I felt compelled to support our co-workers and the residents we serve, particularly our seniors and different susceptible clients.”

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Because HABC is an autarkic entity and not an authoritative portion of metropolis government, the bureau is capable to marque its ain policies.

Employees tin usage paid clip to spell and get the shot. Anyone who doesn’t contiguous impervious of vaccination by Sept. 1 volition beryllium enactment connected a “45-day progressive subject track” that ends successful termination without compliance, the bureau said.

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HABC, the 5th largest nationalist lodging authorization successful the country, has partnered with MedStar Health to clasp vaccination clinics for residents.

CBS Baltimore Staff