Nearly 1,900 Washington state employees quit, fired over vaccine mandate
By Jordan Williams - 10/20/21 11:21 AM EDT
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch...ne-mandate?rl=1


Nearly 1,900 Washington state employees have either quit their jobs or been fired for failing to comply with Gov. Jay Inslee’s (D) coronavirus vaccine mandate.

In a statement, the state’s Office of Financial Management said that over 63,000 employees are in compliance with the mandate as of Tuesday afternoon, which is 92 percent of employees.

Of this, 89.4 percent of employees have verified that they are vaccinated, and 3 percent have an accommodation.

A separate 3 percent of employees, 1,887, have left their jobs or were terminated as part of the mandate.

The remaining 4.6 percent of employees are either in the process of being vaccinated, pending retirement or are pending an accommodation or separation.

"The high number of state employees who have gotten vaccinated is good news. Good for the workers, their colleagues and the people they serve," Inslee's press secretary, Mike Faulk, told The Hill in a statement.-- excerpt, rest at link above --