Posted on 04/26/2021 1:06:10 AM PDT by gattaca
An Arkansas woman says she was fired from her job after not receiving one of the coronavirus vaccines awarded emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Samantha Wise, a mother of five children, told KARK-TV she was fired her job at Harvest Cannabis Dispensary in Conway on March 3 when her supervisors became aware that she was not going to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
"They actually did it — they really fired me — I didn't think it was really going to happen," Wise told KARK. "I knew most everybody's names that came in there. I liked making people's day. That's my main thing in life is to just make people smile."
Wise said the vaccines make her uncomfortable, explaining she has a history of experiencing adverse reactions to medicines.
"I am always that one out of every 10 or so that has a bad reaction. I am that one — so I would just rather not," Wise said. "I don't have good reaction with a lot of medicine."
"I just wish it didn't have to be this way," Wise added, saying she wished her former employer would have permitted employees to make a personal decision about receiving the vaccine, rather than forcing them to chose between the vaccine and their job.
What did the employer say? In a lengthy statement provided to KARK, Harvest Cannabis Dispensary executive director Robbin Rahman explained the dispensary is requiring all employees to receive the COVID-19 to protect customers.
The statement read, in part:
Harvest has a policy of not commenting on the circumstances surrounding the termination of any employee. However, the former employee that is the subject of KARK's story was terminated based on a number of factors and no single factor was determinative, including whether he or she did or did not get a COVID-19 vaccine.
With respect to the COVID-19 vaccine, Harvest takes very seriously its obligation to maintain a safe environment for its patients and also its employees. This obligation has never been more relevant than over the past year, during which every city – big and small – has been in the grips of a deadly pandemic. Harvest is a medical facility and many of its patients suffer from serious medical conditions and are considered "high risk." Is it legal? Chris Burks, an Arkansas employment attorney, told KARK the dispensary's actions are legal.
"In Arkansas, your employer can fire you for not taking [the vaccine], unless there is an issue with a medical issue or religious belief," Burks explained.
How can they fire you for not taking an experimental drug?
This is a case where I would sue.
Welcome to Nazi America.
What happened to our HIPPA “rights”/protection? I thought our medical records were private between patient and doctor??? Did I miss something?, or as posted above, welcome to the Nazi states of America! (That is really disgusting and difficult to type out, but maybe it needs to be said. No offense meant to anyone not responsible for making us that way!)
Ed
As I was told by healthcare leadership.. we require and track the flu vaccine for the safety of our patients. Coincidentally, flu vaccine rates for hospitals receiving medicare reimbursement recd higher rates of fed money if they meet the flu vax threshholds.
This flu vax for pay was in Obamacare. If somthing is so lifesaving and so miraculous why do you need to force people.
Harvest Cannabis Dispensary, work for woke go broke
Wonder where the Freepers are that say ‘at-will, at-will’ and they have every right to fire her.
The company DOES have every right to fire her — though I find it more than a little ironic that a marijuana dispensary would fire someone over this. I wonder how they’d feel if I fired someone for using marijuana.
lawsuit
experimental
I’m guessing HIPAA doesn’t apply when you’re dealing with someone who is publicly exposing her own medical history and decisions like this.
What about her body her choice.
I guess that works only one way.
Isn't having bad reactions to vaccines a medical issue?
What about her body her choice.
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That only works with killing babies, getting your junk cut-off, and fags getting HIV...
Short answer: They can’t.
So either her employers are dumb as stumps, she’s lying about why she was fired, or both.
why should anyone believe anything that the cdc, fauxi, and the scientific community says about a so called “deadly virus” when they refuse to speak up about the dangers of our feral government opening the border, inviting, and then distributing thousands of disease carrying invaders across our country during a so called “global pandemic”???...
Bingo. We have a winner. Time to lawyer up. A 3rd year law student should be able to wrangle a 7 figure settlement out of her erstwhile “employer”.
I hope they have a real good insurance policy to cover them when she shuts them down.
I suppose the business could appeal to the “vexccine” manufacturer for support. Oh wait they are immune. Never mind.
FWIW, I’m betting she’s lying about why she was fired.
Every small biz owner I know is aware of that.
Then again, none of the owners I know run a weed dispenserary or are potheads.
Step away from the weed, guys...
My body my choice? Works for depopulators. The rest of us? Not so much.
speaking of Revolutionary Wars...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
we’re due for a new revolution. : )
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