WATCH: Fired NY firefighter upset by NYC enchantment halting unvaccinated staff' reinstatement

A fired Staten Island firefighter’s pleasure shortly modified after he discovered that a New York Metropolis enchantment would halt a state Supreme Courtroom ruling ordering staff fired over not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine to be reinstated.

Timothy Rivicci had initially sought a spiritual exemption from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, however he was ultimately fired for his choice to not get it. He instructed Fox & Buddies Wednesday that he was thrilled to consider returning to work.

“I believed it was nice,” Rivicci stated. “I used to be excited to be again, been out of labor for nearly a yr now. We’ve been struggling. We haven’t been getting paid, clearly. It’s troublesome paying the mortgage, our payments. Simply horrible what the town is placing us by means of.”

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On Tuesday, New York Metropolis appealed the state ruling that discovered the vaccine is "not absolute" and a mandate to obtain it “violated the petitioners' equal safety rights because the mandate is unfair and capricious."

"The town strongly disagrees with this ruling because the mandate is firmly grounded in legislation and is essential to New Yorkers’ public well being. We've got already filed an enchantment. Within the meantime, the mandate stays in place as this ruling pertains solely to the person petitioners on this case. We proceed to evaluate the court docket’s choice, which conflicts with quite a few different rulings already upholding the mandate," stated the New York Metropolis Regulation Division, in accordance to WABC.

Rivicci’s spouse added that the Supreme Courtroom of New York’s ruling introduced them hope.

“It was very emotional,” she stated, calling it "an enormous weight lifted off our shoulders.” “[It] introduced a number of hope to us — and I’m certain a number of different individuals. However now, understanding the town is refusing to conform is actually upsetting.”

Rivicci’s lawyer Christina Martinez stated the combat for spiritual freedom continues.

“These mandates are destroying lives. Folks want to grasp that after they learn headlines that everybody is being reinstated, that’s not how it's enjoying out for these metropolis staff,” Martinez stated. “These are the folks that laid their lives on the road whereas we have been all sheltering in place. They acquired up, put their uniforms on, and put their lives on the road for the individuals of New York Metropolis, and now their lives are destroyed — no technique of offering for his or her household, no medical insurance, they're ineligible for unemployment.”

“The issue is now we have an administration that doesn’t worth spiritual freedom, doesn’t worth medical freedom, doesn’t worth our first responders,” she stated. “[New York City] Mayor Adams must carry this mandate, get these heroes again to work, and finish these discriminatory insurance policies.”

In September, Adams introduced that New York Metropolis’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for workers of personal companies could be lifted Nov. 1. The announcement shortly drew criticism calling for the lifting of mandates upon public staff, as effectively.