Andrew Cuomo Challenged to ‘face’ Relatives of NY Nursing Home Residents Who Died of COVID as He Mulls Mayoral Run; Court Orders San Francisco to Rehire Employees Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine, and other C-Virus related stories
Andrew Cuomo challenged to ‘face’ relatives of NY nursing home residents who died of COVID as he mulls mayoral run:
Relatives of nursing home residents who died from COVID-19 are demanding a “public meeting” with ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his handling of the pandemic — saying “he needs to face us” before thinking about another run for office.
The families particularly want to grill Cuomo about the controversial March 2020 edict issued by his health department directing nursing homes to admit or readmit recovering COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals.
“The last time Andrew Cuomo was in power, he made a disastrous decision that resulted in unnecessary suffering and now he needs to face us before he even thinks about running for another elected office,” said Peter Arbeeny, whose father died from COVID after spending time in a nursing home.
Representatives from the group Voice for Seniors and Fox News Channel meteorologist Janice Dean are part of the coalition wanting to grill Cuomo, who is said to be mulling a run for New York City mayor.
“He cannot outrun the truth. His directive defied federal guidance from health authorities and then contributed to the death of thousands of his constituents,” charged Arbeeny.
“He has since lied about it, covered up the true consequences and refused to talk to us about it. That must end today.”
Arbeeny and the other families want the Cuomo meeting to be held at the Cobble Hill nursing home where 89-year-old Norman Arbeeny had resided.
The lifelong Brooklynite contracted the virus at the facility before his death at home on April 21, 2020, his son has claimed.
The request comes after a House Republican majority report last month accused Cuomo of committing “medical malpractice” and undercounting COVID-related nursing home deaths in New York during the pandemic. —>READ MORE HERE
Court Orders San Francisco to Rehire Employees Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine:
After an appeals court ruled that San Francisco must rehire two employees who left their jobs after refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, one law professor says the decision reflects a “concerning” increase in the burden on employers to deny exception requests.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided last week that Selina Keene and Melody Fountila, two former employees in the human resources department who retired after being denied religious exemptions to the city’s vaccination policy, should be rehired. The decision reversed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of Oakland, who had dismissed the women’s lawsuit.
The judges said the city forced the women to “choose between their religious beliefs and their careers,” which made them feel “distraught” and “depressed,” according to the decision.
Dorit Reiss, a UC Law San Francisco professor, said the panel’s decision will make it harder for employers to remove workers if they choose to fight their termination in court.
“Pretty much every employee that’s dismissed for violating a workplace rule is going to be distraught,” she told KQED. “In saying that that’s irreparable harm, you’re going to make it really hard for employers to dismiss employees where litigation is going on.”
Reiss said that the move follows other legal decisions since 2020 that have strengthened religious freedom for workers. Since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, she said some courts had required employers to accept what she called more “problematic” religious objections to vaccines and, in some cases, testing and masking.
In 2023, the Supreme Court also raised the bar for employers to deny employees religious exemption requests, deciding that employees must be accommodated unless doing so “would result in substantial increased costs.” —>READ MORE HERE
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