Mayor Eric Adams is offering 2,900 former city workers who lost their jobs after refusing to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandates a path to return.

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services published a notice Wednesday of a proposed rule that would allow the teachers, firefighters and other municipal employees who were dismissed to apply to be reinstated. The proposed rule change will be subject to a public hearing and final approval by the New York state Civil Service Commission, according to the mayor’s office.

The former workers would be able to regain their old titles at their former salaries, but would not be eligible for backpay, the mayor’s office said.

Adams said in a statement Wednesday that the 2021 vaccine mandate, which was put in place by predecessor Bill de Bla

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