Please protect critical government services by providing reasonable accommodations to our state employees!
Governor Baker,
I have significant concerns about the mandated deadline that you have implemented for all Executive Office personnel.
Although many state employees of the Executive Branch have been vaccinated to help safeguard against COVID-19 infection, many of them are expressing a range of concerns, all of which could lead to devastating impacts to the Commonwealth's ability to effectively keep the public safe and deliver essential public services.
By not providing these reasonable accommodations, there will be further staffing decline in already critically low areas such as public safety; public transportation; and state human services facilities where critical direct care is provided to veterans and children and adults coping with a wide-range of illnesses and disabilities.
As the calendar closes in on the October 17th vaccination mandate deadline, I am respectfully asking you to slightly modify your Executive Order to include the same basic accommodations that countless other federal, state and local governments throughout the country have provided...including right here in Massachusetts.
Further, I ask that you treat a COVID related illness as a line of duty injury for public safety personnel and direct care staff who are putting their lives on the line each day and have been hailed as heroes throughout the pandemic.
It is important to stress that I am not opposing the mandate, nor am I opposed to vaccinations. Rather, I am joining countless others in seeking reasonable alternatives to the mandate, such as mandatory masks and weekly COVID testing.
Please protect critical government services by providing reasonable accommodations to our state employees!
Governor Baker,
I have significant concerns about the mandated deadline that you have implemented for all Executive Office personnel.
Although many state employees of the Executive Branch have been vaccinated to help safeguard against COVID-19 infection, many of them are expressing a range of concerns, all of which could lead to devastating impacts to the Commonwealth's ability to effectively keep the public safe and deliver essential public services.
By not providing these reasonable accommodations, there will be further staffing decline in already critically low areas such as public safety; public transportation; and state human services facilities where critical direct care is provided to veterans and children and adults coping with a wide-range of illnesses and disabilities.
As the calendar closes in on the October 17th vaccination mandate deadline, I am respectfully asking you to slightly modify your Executive Order to include the same basic accommodations that countless other federal, state and local governments throughout the country have provided...including right here in Massachusetts.
Further, I ask that you treat a COVID related illness as a line of duty injury for public safety personnel and direct care staff who are putting their lives on the line each day and have been hailed as heroes throughout the pandemic.
It is important to stress that I am not opposing the mandate, nor am I opposed to vaccinations. Rather, I am joining countless others in seeking reasonable alternatives to the mandate, such as mandatory masks and weekly COVID testing.