MILWAUKEE - Froedtert employees had until Wednesday, Sep. 21 to get their first coronavirus vaccine dose or be considered to have "voluntarily resigned." Vaccine requirements are common in hospital ...
So says a federal appellate court, applying federal employment law, which requires employers to exempt religious objectors even from generally applicable job rules, unless exemption would impose an ...
Froedtert said the FDA-approved Novavax COVID-19 vaccine "eliminates" conflicts for some employees with religious exemptions. Employees now have two weeks to get their first dose or they will be ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Ascension St. Vincent is being sued by Indiana workers who claim they were discriminated against when their requests for religious exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccine were denied. The ...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing Rex Healthcare on behalf of an employee fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Heather Goeller claimed the vaccine requirement ...
The military may have moved too fast denying religious exemptions for COVID-19 vaccination. The Pentagon's inspector general warned that mass denials of religious exemption requests were "concerning," ...
William Fridrich, a Christian Scientist, requested a religious exemption. In a letter, the plaintiff "described the nature of his faith and the First Church of Christ, Scientist's teachings on ...
Lawsuits challenging employers' authority to require measures intended to prevent COVID-19 infections continue to wend their way through the federal judiciary. Last month, the Seventh Circuit Court of ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A former Nationwide Children’s Hospital employee has claimed that it discriminated against her by firing her for not getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Tina Moore, a surgical ...
A federal judge in Virginia ruled a man's abortion-based religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine survived a hospital's motion to dismiss. In a July 19 opinion, U.S. District Judge Michael S.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., is pressing the U.S. Army for answers on behalf of former service members who were discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Nearly 2,000 service members were let go from ...
“No Shots. No School. No Exceptions.” That’s what’s parents are greeted with on the Prince George’s County Public Schools webpage on required vaccinations for the upcoming school year. But that’s not ...