‘A few’ LAUSD workers have yet to comply with vaccination mandate

With the deadline looming for employees successful the nation’s second-largest schoolhouse territory to amusement impervious of having received their 2nd of a two-dose COVID-19 regimen, a spokesperson for Los Angeles Unified said Monday evening, Nov. 15, that “a few” staffers inactive had until the extremity of the time to taxable their documentation.

Workers who don’t comply with LAUSD’s vaccination mandate could beryllium placed connected unpaid permission oregon fired.

“Employees moving in-person successful Los Angeles Unified person been vaccinated,” the spokesperson wrote successful an email. “There are a fewer employees who inactive person until the extremity of the time contiguous to upload the grounds of their 2nd vaccine dose. Employees who person not been vaccinated and who person not received tenable accommodations volition beryllium continuing done the dismissal process.”

Last month, aft the deadline had passed for employees to get astatine slightest their archetypal vaccine dose, the territory reported that 97% of each unit members had met that archetypal threshold oregon had been granted a workplace accommodation, specified arsenic being assigned to distant enactment oregon being placed connected leave.

The vaccination oregon accommodation complaint among the district’s main worker groups astatine that clip — erstwhile workers lone had to person received 1 vaccine dose — were 99.4% for Associated Administrators of Los Angeles, which represents principals and different schoolhouse tract administrators; 98.5% for the teachers union, which represents counselors, schoolhouse nurses and different certificated unit too teachers; and 95.4% of California School Employees Association members, which represents clerical and bureau workers.

SEIU Local 99, which represents custodians, nutrient work workers, autobus drivers, peculiar acquisition assistants and different classified employees, had a 95% rate.

An estimated 88% of workers successful the Los Angeles School Police Management Association, which represents constabulary lieutenants and sergeants, were astatine slightest partially vaccinated astatine that time, arsenic were 85.2% of members of the Los Angeles School Police Association, which represents rank-and-file officers.

On Monday, Nery Paiz, the caput of the administrators’ national said helium believed that conscionable 5 of the 3,000 members his enactment represents — oregon 0.2% of the members — had yet to comply oregon been granted an accommodation

Lt. Rob Taylor, president of the Los Angeles School Police Management Association, said each but 3 employees successful his enactment are present wholly vaccinated. The 3 individuals who haven’t complied are recovering from work-related injuries and won’t beryllium required to get their shots until they’re expected to travel backmost to work, helium said.

The district’s mandate does let for aesculapian oregon spiritual exemptions.

School committee subordinate Jackie Goldberg told KNX Newsradio that workers who miss the Monday deadline and are terminated volition inactive beryllium capable to get vaccinated and perchance get their jobs back.

“Even if they’ve been dismissed, if they get vaccinated and they use to beryllium rehired wrong a definite play of time, if there’s a vacancy successful their field, which determination precise good whitethorn be, they volition beryllium rehired,” she said.

A lawsuit challenging the district’s unit vaccination mandate was filed recently.

The territory besides faces at slightest two other lawsuits implicit a akin vaccination mandate for students.

Children 12 and older volition beryllium required to get their archetypal vaccine dose by Sunday and their 2nd by Dec. 19, up of the commencement of 2nd semester successful January.

With reporting from City News Service.