Gov. Jay Inslee has issued an executive directive making a full COVID-19 vaccine series a permanent condition of employment for state executive and small cabinet agencies.
New employees will be immediately subject to the requirement, and current employees have until July 1, 2023, to step into compliance.
Washington is home to approximately 62,000 state agency employees, according to 2021 data from the Office of Financial Management.
Previous vaccine mandates handed down by the governor’s office encompassed all healthcare and education workers. Thursday’s directive appears narrower, only explicitly referring to employees of state agencies. The governor’s office could not be immediately reached for comment on whether more sweeping long-term COVID-19
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