Governor Announces Executive Branch Employees Vaccinated or Testing - Except for 73 on Unpaid Leave

Governor Ned Lamont’s Office

Governor Ned Lamont today released updated data regarding compliance with his order requiring executive branch state employees to either be vaccinated against COVID-19 or receive weekly testing for the virus.

Overall compliance remains high with 95% of executive branch state employees either fully vaccinated or current in their weekly testing. The overall vaccination rate among the executive branch is 84%, which is an increase from the most recent update on October 22 when it was 80.8%. A total of 11% have been receiving weekly testing.

Among the 5% of executive branch employees who are not in compliance:

• 31 have been separated from state employment;

• 35 have been placed on unpaid leave;

• 42 are in process of being put on unpaid leave due to refusal to comply; and

• the remaining employees among the 5% not in compliance are late submitting their weekly test results but are working to comply with the requirements.

The judicial and legislative branches have each implemented vaccination and testing requirements among their employees, similar to the one implemented in the executive branch. Each branch of state government has been monitoring compliance and collecting data for those employees within their respective branches.