500 Fired Health Care Workers Win Historic Multi-Million Dollar Settlement in COVID Mandate 'Wake-up Call'

CBN News ^ | July 29, 2022 | Steve Warren

[SisterK]

plus this win will establish a Precedent

may this be the beginning of the end of medical tyranny

[mad_as_he$$]

Probably 30%. But the plaintffs most likely couldn’t afford to do it themselves.

[M1903A1]

And even once all this is through, these employers and agencies have tarred their reputations for years to come.

I look at local transit agencies with vax mandates...their job listings are a mile long (many have been relisted repeatedly), and they’re having serious problems just providing service. The Chicago Transit Authority kept full service schedules all through the initial Covid mess to today, but it was recently exposed that they’re providing only about half of the actual service.

[GOPJ]

... I wonder how much of that settlement goes to the lawyers

I'd rather have 50% of something than 100% of nothing.

[yldstrk]

40% is standard on a contingency fee contract What, lawyers are supposed to work their heads off for free? All you who believe in the “all lawyers are rich” myth are wrong. And without lawyers, who would fight these battles?

[Fury]

This health system shot themselves in the foot. They essentially advised their employees that there would be no religious exemptions - period.

The settlement is an acknowledgment that they knew they ran afoul of Federal law and would lose in a trial.

Great win.

[Gay State Conservative]

The MBTA (Greater Boston's transit system) has frequently announced that they're cutting service because they can't get enough operators/drivers. And several of Harvard Medical School's most important teaching hospitals (all of which are recognized worldwide as being the best in the world) are screaming because they don't have enough nurses,technicians,etc.

Of course Massachusetts state legislators (and civil service hacks) haven't missed a single paycheck during the 2+ years that they've been "working at home".

That's how this state's Rat Party rolls!

[who knows what evil?]

Wonderful news! Make ‘em squeal like Ned Beatty in ‘Deliverance’...

[Alberta's Child]

I don’t think there’s a money trail at all. From my experience, employers sat down with their attorneys and made a simple calculation of two risks:

A. Impose harsh mandates on their employees, and face the prospect of massive lawsuits over civil rights violations and “vackseen” side effects.

B. Don’t impose the mandates, and face the prospect of massive lawsuits from employees who claim they contracted COVID from their coworkers.

Most employers probably just figured that B would cost a hell of a lot more than A.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Before everyone gets positively orgasmic over this, while it is a very good thing, it’s noteworthy that this is only for people who wanted a religious exemption. Doesn’t seem to do anything for people who wanted a common sense objection. Or personal rights objection.

How about those who said they did not want to take an experimental drug that was not properly tested? Do they get compensation?

[cgbg]

“Execs who forced these illegal mandates should be held personally liable. Prison would be better, but poverty is okay too.”

Prison with a lifetime of participation in all future medical experiments—before lab rats.

[Radix]

It is the federal government which is responsible. Employees must be vaccinated or federal subsidies will be withheld. There is simply too much federal dough in all of this Health Care business.

[Jane Long]

Praying so 🙏🏻

[Jane Long]

🙄

🙃

[gitmo]

20K apiece. Not enough.

[Honest Nigerian]

$20,000 per worker.
I hope Liberty Counsel gets a decent amount for their work.

[cgbg]

The corporate officials can go ahead and give the Nuremberg defense:

“I was just following orders.”

It didn’t work then and it should not work now.

[Wuli]

The settlement is, on average, a little over $20,000 for each of the 500 health care workers.

Somehow that does not sound like a generous or fair settlement, financially.

[Sequoyah101]

The problem with getting your job back is who wants to work for someone who has done this to you? Now you know what they are capable of and how much they hate you. Does anyone think they will ever be collegial or fair again?

Resentment. Its what’s for dinner.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

How about those who said they did not want to take an experimental drug that was not properly tested? Do they get compensation?

Hopefully that's a totally different bunch of class action and individual lawsuits.