Posted on 05/07/2021 8:11:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The first federal lawsuit challenging employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccines has added a second plaintiff who claims that he was let go after refusing the county’s vaccine mandate.
Anthony Zoccoli, a former employee of the Doña Ana County Detention Center in New Mexico, claimed he was fired from his job because he refused to receive the “experimental injection,” according to an amended complaint filed on May 4.
The lawsuit resulted from a January directive issued by county manager Fernando Macias that all Doña Ana county first responders, including detention center officers and “other staff who have face-to-face contact with inmates,” get the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition for continued employment.
“As required by OSHA and in accordance with the County’s duty to provide and maintain a workplace that is free of known hazards, we are adopting a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination directive,” Macias wrote in a Jan. 29 memo, adding that vaccination is a “requirement and a condition of on-going employment with the County.”
Macias is one of the five defendants named in the complaint. The other four are detention center director Bryan Baker, Captains Ben Mendoza and Joshua Fleming, and the County of Doña Ana.
A Department of Labor spokesperson, in an email to The Epoch Times on March 15, said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not require employers to mandate the vaccine.
“OSHA does not mandate that businesses require its employees to be vaccinated, but an employer may do so if it is consistent with other Federal, state, or local labor and employment laws,” the spokesperson wrote.
County Attorney Nelson Goodin, representing the defendants, denied Zoccoli was dismissed as a result of not getting inoculated.
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Good.
National Labor Relations Board has already ruled if an employer mandates these experimental vaccines and employees have adverse events they must be covered by workman’s compensation. This was on FR a week or two ago.
Also if something is under an EUA, it can’t be made mandatory.
Unfortunately I read Pfizer just applied for full approval, once this regime (I refuse to use any other word for pirates dictators running country) approves, there won’t be much legal ground for employees. My age group is screwed—at risk, but still 10 years from retirement and age discrimination is out of control as well. For a variety of personal reasons unwilling to consider this vaccine until much more time passes on safety and efficacy and from medical/psychological standpoint due to past trauma the vaccine could kill me. How am I supposed to survive rest of my life and support myself? White American isn’t considered a minority (but surely by now I think we’re close), and I’m not an illegal either so the government certainly won’t be there to help me!! God help us
GREAT, MY BODY, MY CHOICE.
CRT-WOKE, 2ND, 3RD RATE BLACKS COME BEFORE A WHITE MALE.
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