Culver City Will Require All City Employees Are Vaccinated

CULVER CITY, CA — Culver City will have a mandatory vaccination policy for city employees, contractors, volunteers and interns, the city announced Thursday.

"It is the city’s duty to provide a healthy work environment and to safeguard the health and wellbeing of our employees, their families, our customers, visitors, and the community at large from COVID-19," City Manager John Nachbar said in a statement.

The city plans to release more details on the policy in the coming days, including the date by which all 823 city employees, as well as city contractors, volunteers, and interns must be vaccinated.

The city will meet with the employee labor groups to discuss the negotiable effects of this requirement. The city encourages all city employees to get vaccinated as soon as possible, even before the policy is in place.

In September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to provide full approval to the Pfizer vaccine and approval to the other two vaccines shortly thereafter. All three vaccines — Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson — have been deemed safe and effective at preventing serious illness and death caused by COVID-19 infection.

"The city is encouraging the entire community to get vaccinated for COVID-19 as soon as possible," the city said in a statement. "In support of that goal, the city has to date sponsored six vaccination opportunities exclusively for city employees, one vaccination opportunity for two senior living facilities, and two pop-up vaccination clinics for the general public."

The Culver City Fire Department has also vaccinated 20 homebound Culver City residents. At the latest pop-up vaccination clinic held today at the City's Fire Station 1, the Culver City Fire Department vaccinated 32 people. You can find a walk-in vaccination clinic or make a vaccine appointment today at myturn.ca.gov.

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