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No flu shot...no job. Eight health workers fired for refusing flu shots : News : NorthwestOhio.com
Indiana hospital fires 8 workers who refused flu shot | Fox News
I believe that employees should honor the agreement they made when they were hired. However, from the articles, it appears the hospital changed the terms of employment.
...Eight health workers in Indiana are currently unemployed...having been fired by their companies for not getting a mandatory flu shot...
...Beginning this year, all of the hospitals staff, affiliated physicians, volunteers and vendors are required to receive a flu vaccination or apply for an exemption...
The hospital set the requirements based on a recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, the American Medical Association and other major regulatory health agencies, hospital spokeswoman Melanie McDonald told The Elkhart Truth...
The hospital set the requirements based on a recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, the American Medical Association and other major regulatory health agencies, hospital spokeswoman Melanie McDonald told The Elkhart Truth.
Indiana hospital fires 8 workers who refused flu shot | Fox News
Because IU Health Goshen Hospital staff had the option under the new policy of filing medical or religious exemptions from the vaccination, Gingerich and three others hired Alan Phillips, an attorney in North Carolina, to write their exemption recommendations.
But hospital officials rejected their exemption applications.
McDonald said a group at the hospital reviewed the exemption requests using guidelines provided by the CDC and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC. She said one of the most common medical exemptions is for people with severe allergies to the vaccine, but religious exemptions are a little more complicated.
"The EEOC's guidelines specify that just because there are beliefs that are strongly held does not mean that they are protected by a religious blanket, so social, political and economic philosophies and personal preferences, those are not religious beliefs," McDonald said.
Sue Schrock, who had worked at the Goshen hospital as a hospice nurse on and off for the past 40 years, also had her exemption application rejected. She said her decision to decline the vaccination was, in part, "God-led."
I believe that employees should honor the agreement they made when they were hired. However, from the articles, it appears the hospital changed the terms of employment.