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King County council members are considering rehiring employees who were let go for failing to abide by the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The proposal, sponsored by Councilmember Reagan Dunn, is part of a push to fill hundreds of vacant positions across King County departments, including King County Metro and the Sheriff’s Office.

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After two years of the mandate — requiring all county employees and contractors to show proof they received the vaccine — the county’s vaccine requirement expired this year on Feb. 6. Dunn claimed approximately 300 King County employees lost their jobs over failing to comply with this mandate.

鈥淎nd a lot more than that number resigned early because they didn鈥檛 want to have a termination on their record,鈥� Dunn told The Jason Rantz Show in February. 鈥淎nd here鈥檚 the problem. We are short. We have more than 100 vacancies for sheriff鈥檚 deputies in King County at a time when crime is at historic highs and drug overdoses are at historic highs. The cartels are moving into our community. We need officers right now.鈥�

King County’s formal discussion to bring back the previously-fire employees began Wednesday morning after numerous public comments supported the idea during county forums.

“We still have a 20% vacancy rate,” Randy Weaver, Vice President of the , told 成人X站 Newsradio. “We still are impacted by large amounts of mandatory overtime. If this helps us just get a couple of our experienced employees back it’ll help us.”

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Two hundred and eighty-one county employees were let go due to not complying with the vaccine mandate, according to the . County officials have stated more than 98% of King County employees provided proof of vaccination at the time of the mandate. The county has hired approximately 4,000 employees since the mandate.

Last year, 27 Seattle firefighters launched a lawsuit against Seattle Fire Department Chief Harold Scoggins and the City of Seattle over their terminations due to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.