Health care workers fired over vaccine mandate awarded $10 million in settlement

[Ordinary Guy]

VICTORY for all Americans is coming!

Illinois health care workers who were fired or otherwise impacted by their hospitals' COVID-19 vaccine mandate will receive a $10 million settlement after filing a lawsuit challenging the rule.

"Let this case be a warning to employers that violated Title VII," Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the group behind the lawsuit, told the Washington Examiner. "It is especially significant and gratifying that this first classwide COVID settlement protects healthcare workers."

The case centers around workers at NorthShore University HealthSystem, who filed a lawsuit in October 2021 claiming their employer illegally refused to grant any religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The settlement approved in the Illinois Northern District Court will result in 473 employees of the system becoming eligible for compensation for being denied a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate, with any of those fired as a result of the rules being eligible for $25,000. The 13 plaintiffs involved in the suit will be eligible for an additional $20,000, while those who complied with the mandate to keep their jobs despite having religious objections will be eligible for $3,000.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthca...ion-settlement

 

[TNHarley]

If its a private hospital, they should be able to institute whatever laws they want.

 

[bravoactual]

VICTORY for all Americans is coming!

Illinois health care workers who were fired or otherwise impacted by their hospitals' COVID-19 vaccine mandate will receive a $10 million settlement after filing a lawsuit challenging the rule.

"Let this case be a warning to employers that violated Title VII," Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the group behind the lawsuit, told the Washington Examiner. "It is especially significant and gratifying that this first classwide COVID settlement protects healthcare workers."

The case centers around workers at NorthShore University HealthSystem, who filed a lawsuit in October 2021 claiming their employer illegally refused to grant any religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The settlement approved in the Illinois Northern District Court will result in 473 employees of the system becoming eligible for compensation for being denied a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate, with any of those fired as a result of the rules being eligible for $25,000. The 13 plaintiffs involved in the suit will be eligible for an additional $20,000, while those who complied with the mandate to keep their jobs despite having religious objections will be eligible for $3,000.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthca...ion-settlement

As you sit by cheering this on, remember Polio is back. Good going.

 

[TNHarley]

As you sit by cheering this on, remember Polio is back. Good going.

Are you blaming him for that? Seriously?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

If its a private hospital, they should be able to institute whatever laws they want.

No
A private business can't institute a "law" that if you are late they can kill you.
Why would that not be legal?
Same reason this was wrong

 

[multivita-man]

Are you blaming him for that? Seriously?

No, just the absolute idiocy of the anti-vaxx movement and people who think their ignorance is just as valuable as a public health official's expertise. As the previous poster said, polio's coming back, as are a lot of other preventable diseases. This is just sheer idiocy and people celebrate it.

 

[multivita-man]

No
A private business can't institute a "law" that if you are late they can kill you.
Why would that not be legal?
Same reason this was wrong

Has a hospital or local municipal government ever proposed such a law? No? Didn't think so. Some analogies are just kinda dumb.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

VICTORY for all Americans is coming!

Illinois health care workers who were fired or otherwise impacted by their hospitals' COVID-19 vaccine mandate will receive a $10 million settlement after filing a lawsuit challenging the rule.

"Let this case be a warning to employers that violated Title VII," Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, the group behind the lawsuit, told the Washington Examiner. "It is especially significant and gratifying that this first classwide COVID settlement protects healthcare workers."

The case centers around workers at NorthShore University HealthSystem, who filed a lawsuit in October 2021 claiming their employer illegally refused to grant any religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The settlement approved in the Illinois Northern District Court will result in 473 employees of the system becoming eligible for compensation for being denied a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate, with any of those fired as a result of the rules being eligible for $25,000. The 13 plaintiffs involved in the suit will be eligible for an additional $20,000, while those who complied with the mandate to keep their jobs despite having religious objections will be eligible for $3,000.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthca...ion-settlement

There has already been a thread on this.

They lost because they refused to even consider offering religious exemptions.

 

[TNHarley]

No, just the absolute idiocy of the anti-vaxx movement and people who think their ignorance is just as valuable as a public health official's expertise. As the previous poster said, polio's coming back, as are a lot of other preventable diseases. This is just sheer idiocy and people celebrate it.

The covid jab isnt a vaccine

 

[Harpy Eagle]

If its a private hospital, they should be able to institute whatever laws they want.

They screwed up by not even considering religious exemptions. They have said anyone with a religious exemption for other vaccines can have one for this one also.

 

[multivita-man]

The covid jab isnt a vaccine

What is it then, a sugar injection?

 

[TNHarley]

No
A private business can't institute a "law" that if you are late they can kill you.
Why would that not be legal?
Same reason this was wrong

Really? Kill them?
A business should be able to fire whoever they want for whatever reason. Period.

 

[TNHarley]

What is it then, a sugar injection?

 

[TNHarley]

Some analogies are just kinda dumb.

like sugar injections?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Really? Kill them?
A business should be able to fire whoever they want for whatever reason. Period.

Fire yes, kill no.
Yes I am saying something absurd for effect... but the same principle.
An employer should never have the right to direct people to get a medical procedure or get fired.
That violates their civil rights.
Civil rights trump employer rights.

 

[TNHarley]

Fire yes, kill no.
Yes I am saying something absurd for effect... but the same principle.
An employer should never have the right to direct people to get a medical procedure or get fired.
That violates their civil rights.
Civil rights trump employer rights.

No it doesnt. They dont have a "right" to work there.
I dont agree with it, but i support their(the employers) right to be dipshits.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Fire yes, kill no.
Yes I am saying something absurd for effect... but the same principle.
An employer should never have the right to direct people to get a medical procedure or get fired.
That violates their civil rights.
Civil rights trump employer rights.

What about the employers rights?

Nobody is owed a job, nobody has a right to a certain paycheck.

 

[bravoactual]

Are you blaming him for that? Seriously?

I am blaming every fucking Mask Hole and Vax Idiot.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

What about the employers rights?

Nobody is owed a job, nobody has a right to a certain paycheck.

I am an employer.
And have been since 1987.
And Indiana is a no fault employer, so yes we can fire anyone for any reason unless we have written otherwise in an employee handbook.
But we cannot violate people's civil rights.
We cannot fire someone because they are black or gay. Why not? We should be able to fire anyone for any reason right?
See how that works?

 

[TNHarley]

I am blaming every fucking Mask Hole and Vax Idiot.

So you are just screaming at the clouds. Gotcha