
LA County moves to shift who can discipline unvaccinated workers as the sheriff continues to refuse to enforce the mandate
CNN
The authority to impose penalties for noncompliance with Los Angeles County's vaccine mandate for public workers soon could shift way from department heads who may not be carrying it out -- namely the powerful and outspoken sheriff who says 4,000 of his employees could face being fired because of stiffer enforcement.
The measure further inflames tensions between law enforcement and administrators of the most populous US county and comes as vaccine policies and masking rules continue to stoke passions more than two years into the pandemic.
The LA County proposal -- supported Tuesday by its Board of Supervisors for review March 15 -- would empower the county's personnel director to override department heads and discipline employees who don't comply with the vaccine mandate in place since October 1.

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