Hospital System Will Pay $1 Million to Employees It Punished for Refusing COVID Shots
"At the start of my tenure as Acting Chair of the EEOC, I committed to focusing our agency's resources to address the very real problem of religious discrimination, and this resolution is just the beginning." -Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas
[LifeSiteNews.com] The Trump administration is delivering justice for employees who were forced out of their job for declining the abortion-tainted COVID shot—including a recent $1 million settlement. (Image: iStock-Pekic)
Mercyhealth agreed to the settlement after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) investigated the healthcare organization, which operates clinics and hospitals in Wisconsin and Illinois, for "denying [employees] a religious accommodation and either terminating their employment or subjecting them to a wage deduction."
"The EEOC also found reasonable cause to believe that Mercyhealth discriminated against a class of similarly situated employees across all its facilities from September 2021 to May 2022 by denying them an opportunity to request a religious accommodation, opting instead either to terminate their employment or withhold money from their pay," the commission announced... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here
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