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Vaccine mandate deadline looms for less than fifth of AC Transit workers
Less than a fifth of AC Transit workers have until the end of Thursday to meet the agency's vaccine mandate or face possible termination.Read More
BART loses 2 percent of workforce for vaccine mandate noncompliance
Nearly 100 BART employees have quit or been fired in recent months after failing to comply with the agency's Covid-19 vaccination mandate.Read More
VTA sets vaccination deadlines for employees of April 29
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority will require its employees and contractors to prove by April 29 that they have completed their initial vaccine series. %Read More
Unvaccinated Muni operators cause service gaps as mandate deadline passes
More than 100 Muni operators were off the job Monday as the deadline for San Francisco’s city employee vaccination mandate came and went. Jeffrey Tumlin, the San Francisco Municipal...Read More
BART employees face Dec. 13 vaccination deadline
The BART board voted 8-1 Thursday to impose a Covid-19 vaccine requirement on all BART employees, effective Dec. 13. BART’s General Manager Bob Powers and his staff will negotiate...Read More
About 2,200 Kaiser employees on unpaid leave due to vaccination status
Oakland-based health care provider Kaiser Permanente had just over 2,200 employees on unpaid administrative leave as of Monday because they were not vaccinated from COVID-19, Kaiser officials said. The...Read More
Hundreds of Muni operators risk termination as vaccination deadline nears
San Francisco transit passengers could be facing major service cuts as the Nov. 1 vaccination deadline approaches for city employees. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Director of Transportation...Read More
SFO issues first U.S. airport vaccine mandate for all on-site personnel
San Francisco will require that all San Francisco International Airport on-site personnel, including tenants and contractors, be vaccinated under a new mandate announced by city officials Tuesday, the first...Read More
Contra Costa County issues indoor business vaccination, testing order
As of Sept. 22, customers at many Contra Costa County indoor businesses will have to show proof of vaccination or negative test. Workers have until Nov. 1 to prove...Read More
Vaccine mandates roll out at local community colleges, in sweeping federal order
Contra Costa County community college staff and students will soon be required to show vaccination, and President Joe Biden issued a sweeping federal vaccine mandate Thursday. Read More
County employees face termination if unvaccinated by Oct. 4
All Contra Costa County employees must be vaccinated by October 4 or face discipline up to and including termination, a county official said this week. The mandate was set...Read More
Legal experts refute Nuremberg Code argument around vaccine mandates
Dan Vanderzwaag, a resident of Ottawa County, Michigan, had a question for the county’s Board of Commissioners during its meeting Tuesday. In a clip that later went viral, he’s...Read More
Anti-mask protesters delay council meeting ahead of vaccine mandate vote
Anti-mask activists protested at the San Jose City Council chambers ahead of a vaccine mandate vote Tuesday. Dozens of anti-maskers, who predictably did not wear masks in the city...Read More
Joining growing list, Marin County issues first responder vaccine, test mandate
First responders in Marin County will have to show proof of vaccination against the Covid-19 virus or take weekly tests starting Sept. 15. Marin County Public Health issued an...Read More
County first responders to prove vaccination or submit to regular testing
Contra Costa County officials announced Friday that the county will now require first responders to verify their Covid-19 vaccination status or submit to regular testing for the virus. The...Read More