SF Will Require City Employees To Be Vaccinated

Thanks to NBC Bay Area for sharing the news that San Francisco is requiring all city employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Starting Monday, June 28, employees will have 30 days to provide their vaccination status to the city to meet with Cal/OSHA regulations. Currently the vaccines are under an emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration, but once the COVID-19 vaccines are fully approved by the FDA, city employees will have 10 weeks to comply with the vaccine mandate.

Tens of thousands of city employees will need be in compliance, including the city’s police officers, firefighters, city hall staff and Muni workers. However, there will exemptions for medical and religious reasons.

San Francisco’s HR Director Carol Isen noted, “in order to allow our employees who have been vaccinated, and we believe that to be the majority of them, to work unmasked we have to know their status.“

If any city employees refuses the vaccine (and are not exempt), they’ll have to be let go, similarly to how the city terminated any staff who refused to wear masks earlier in the pandemic.