Judge suspends deadline for Chicago cops to get vaccinated

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Chicago Police officers disguise up and hole adjacent Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's location arsenic radical protestation the March 29th shooting and sidesplitting of 13 year-old Adam Toledo by a Chicago Police serviceman Friday, April 16, 2021, successful Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

By: The Associated Press said & Scripps National

Posted at 3:20 PM, Nov 01, 2021

and past updated 2021-11-01 16:20:27-04

CHICAGO (AP) — A justice has suspended a Dec. 31 deadline for Chicago constabulary officers to beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19. But helium didn’t interfere with a request that officers beryllium regularly tested.

The restraining bid lone applies to members of the Fraternal Order of Police, according to ABC 7 Chicago.

Police unions had sought a restraining bid against the metropolis of Chicago.

Judge Raymond Mitchell says the quality implicit getting vaccinations should beryllium handled by an arbitrator arsenic a labour grievance. Mitchell says having a grievance heard seems similar a “pretty humble task.”

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s medication announced the vaccine argumentation weeks ago. Officers were required to taxable their vaccination presumption by Oct. 15 and unvaccinated officers were required to beryllium afloat vaccinated by Dec. 31.

WGN reports that 32 officers were enactment connected a no-pay presumption for not reporting their vaccination status.

The national wants those officers to instrumentality to enactment portion it negotiates with the metropolis astir the vaccine mandate, according to WGN.