NYC to Fine Businesses $1,000 for Defying Vaccine Mandate

New York City will fine businesses $1,000 if they don’t comply with a Covid-19 vaccine mandate that starts on Dec. 27.

The city will also apply escalating penalties thereafter if violations persist, the city said in guidelines released Wednesday on how it will enforce the requirement, which covers roughly 184,000 private businesses with operations in the city.

“We need strong measures now,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a Wednesday briefing. “The goal is not to penalize, but to simply make this work.”

New York City has gone further than other jurisdictions in imposing a vaccination mandate on private-sector workers ...