FILE - A healthcare idiosyncratic fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine astatine Jackson Memorial Hospital, Oct. 5, 2021, successful Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) (Lynne Sladky, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Unlike immoderate states, Florida is not rolling retired immoderate caller restrictions to dilatory the dispersed of the omicron variant.

The authorities is alternatively moving guardant with a caller instrumentality designed to assistance radical fired for refusing to get vaccinated.

Following transition of a caller authorities law, the Department of Economic Opportunity moved guardant Tuesday with a regularisation that would let authorities workers to beryllium eligible for unemployment benefits if they are fto spell from jobs for refusing to comply with coronavirus vaccination mandates.

A announcement of the rule, published successful the Florida Administrative Register, said it “provides that claimants discharged from acquisition institutions and governmental entities volition not beryllium disqualified from benefits if the discharge is for refusing to comply with a COVID-19 vaccination mandate.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a wide-ranging measure (HB 1B) passed successful a November peculiar legislative league that said refusing to comply with vaccination mandates isn’t considered “misconduct” for the intent of receiving unemployment benefits.

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For benefits to beryllium provided, employers besides indispensable person failed to connection vaccination exemptions, specified arsenic for aesculapian oregon spiritual reasons.

The instrumentality besides prohibits nationalist acquisition institutions oregon authorities agencies from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations arsenic a information of employment and authorizes the Department of Health to enforce fines of up to $5,000 per violation.

Florida is 1 of 4 states to walk laws making it easier for authorities workers to cod unemployment if they garbage to travel the vaccination mandates.

The Supreme Court volition perceive a situation to the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for ample employers connected Jan. 7.

The regularisation is presently scheduled to instrumentality effect a fewer days later.

WJXT and News Service of Florida 2021

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Ashley Harding joined the Channel 4 quality squad successful March 2013 and reports each weekday for The Morning Show.