MTA COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing program for current employees: weekly testing of unvaccinated employees required beginning Monday, Oct. 4, 2021; further phase from Nov. 2021 (announced Oct. 1, 2021; program directed Aug. 2, 2021 effective Labor Day)

The record

Jurisdiction

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) (as employer of about 67,000) · New York

Level

State

Authority

MTA employer authority (Pub. Auth. Law § 1265) implementing the Governor's directive

Issued

2021-10-01 Oct. 1, 2021

Effective

2021-10-04 (program in force from Sept. 6, 2021 per the Governor's Aug. 2, 2021 directive) (read as 2021-10-04)

End

continued into 2022

In force

Oct. 4, 2021 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)

Limitation types

Workplace rulesVaccination or testingOther

Addressees

• all MTA employees (NYC Transit, LIRR, Metro-North, MTA Bus, Bridges and Tunnels)

Functions reached

• WF public-authority workforce vaccination-or-test mandate
• HR
• EMP

Collection

Aviation and surface-transport regulators AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE

Operative words

"October 1, 2021 6:00 p.[m.]... [Unvaccinated employees are] required weekly to test for COVID-19 beginning on Monday, Oct. [4]." "The MTA currently has 138 on-site locations for employees to get tested." (Further phase "beginning on or after Sunday, Nov. [7]".)

Enforcement

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