{"id":50500,"date":"2021-09-13T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=50500"},"modified":"2021-09-13T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:20:36","slug":"florida-cities-counties-that-require-employees-to-get-vaccinated-will-be-fined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/09\/florida-cities-counties-that-require-employees-to-get-vaccinated-will-be-fined\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida cities, counties that require employees to get vaccinated will be fined"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Florida Governor Ron Desantis announced on Monday that any city or county that requires its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will be fined $5,000 per infraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DESANTIS-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DESANTIS-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DESANTIS-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DESANTIS-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DESANTIS.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Governor spoke in Alachua County on Monday morning about vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are here today to make it very clear that we are going to stand for the men and women who are serving. We are going to protect Florida jobs,&#8221; he said during the news conference. &#8220;We are not gonna let people be fired because of a vaccine mandate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor Desantis went on to announce that any city or county that requires employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will face a $5,000 fine per infraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Orange County is&nbsp;an example of a Florida county&nbsp;that requires all current and new employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment. They issued a memo in July stating that all employees must be fully vaccinated by August 31st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaders in Orange County held a COVID-19 briefing as Governor Ron DeSantis spoke on Monday. Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings was asked about the Governor\u2019s newly-announced fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, it\u2019s all of our goals to protect the greater collective of the people in our community to keep them safe,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to take actions that will adversely impact the safety of our community. Sometimes, quite frankly, I question whether or not the governor really sees it that way. He may say that he does, but I believe many of the decisions that he makes are purely politically motivated and that\u2019s not how I make decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron Desantis announced on Monday that any city or county that requires its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will be fined $5,000 per infraction. The Governor spoke&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[684,683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50501,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50500\/revisions\/50501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}