Social worker Diane Pagen, terminated three years ago for violating the city's vaccine mandate, received an "invoice" after Thanksgiving from the DOE seeking $2,290, a sum covering her salary for 10 days in 2021 when she was ordered not to work.
"What kind of upside-down clown world has NYC's Department of Education become? This agency refused to allow me to go to work ... and now wants to bill me," she told The Post.
The fact that they are asking her to pay after keeping her out of work for so long is nothing short of an outrage," said Queens Councilwoman Joann Ariola, a Republican.
Pagen is one of 1,780 city employees - including 1,100 in the DOE - forced to leave on Oct. 4, 2021, because they would not comply with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
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