Health care workers fired over vaccine mandate awarded $10 million in settlement
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.
About time!
“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.”
So what is Title VII?
…claiming their employer illegally refused to grant any religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
And what was awarded?
…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.
That hardly covers anything. Lost wages, emotional harm, harassment, etc.
…Liberty Council’s claim that the mandate violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Anyone fired because of their refusal to get the jab will also be eligible for reemployment in the system.
Liberty Counsel Vice President of Legal Affairs Horatio Mihet said in a statement that the settlement should “serve as a strong warning to employers across the nation that they cannot refuse to accommodate those with sincere religious objections to forced vaccination mandates,”
Time for all employers (public and private) to be held accountable for this Civil Rights Violations.
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