LOS ANGELES — When Los Angeles city employees file for religious or medical exemptions to the city's COVID-19 vaccination requirement, the requests are typically reviewed to ensure that exemption requests are valid.
But in a twist, the city ordered the approval of all religious and medical exemptions to the vaccine mandate that were filed by city employees as of Jan. 31, according to a city memo reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
Personnel Department General Manager Dana Brown sent a memo to department heads this week, instructing them to "administratively approve all pending appeals by current employees" that were filed before Tuesday.
