Hospital fires 6 who didn't get vaccinated

NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- A infirmary successful New Jersey says it fired six high-ranking workers for refusing to comply with its COVID vaccine mandate.

RWJ Barnabas Health says six unit members astatine the supervisor level refused to comply with the hospital's vaccine mandate.

Back successful May, the wellness attraction supplier announced its argumentation requiring that each squad members astatine the supervisory level oregon supra implicit their people of vaccinations by the extremity of June.

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They accidental the employees did not person aesculapian oregon spiritual exemptions oregon a deferral.

Despite the firings, the wellness attraction supplier says 2,979 unit members (99.7%), who are astatine the supervisor level and above, person been afloat vaccinated oregon received immoderate benignant of exemption arsenic of July 14.

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