15 Jewish Senior Services staff resign over required COVID shots
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Joanne Kombert, R.N., adminsters a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. While vaccines are easily available, there remains resistance against getting them, which may affect people’s employment.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRIDGEPORT Fifteen out of 750 staffers at Jewish Senior Services resigned last week after refusing to get vaccinated for the coronavirus.
And while that number represents just about 2 percent of his staff, Andrew Banoff, JSS’s president, said it was still difficult to see them go.
“I still think it’s the right decision and feel strongly it was the right thing to do, but it’s hard,” Banoff said in an interview Wednesday.
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Employees Were Verbally and Physically Harassed and Forced to Quit Because of Intolerable Working Conditions, Federal Agency Charges
NEW YORK – Stardust Diners, Inc., a restaurant that has operated for decades in East Meadow, Nassau County, N.Y., under the name Colony Diner, violated federal law by subjecting its female employees to harassment on the basis of sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC’s suit, the Colony Diner’s owners and other male employees created, encouraged and tolerated a work environment in which female servers and hostesses experienced unwelcome verbal commentary and physical touching on a daily basis. Women who objected to the harassment were assigned to sections of the restaurant in which they earned very few tips in retaliation for their complaints. Because the unlawful environment was condoned by management, the w