Posted on 08/17/2022 8:51:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Christian litigation nonprofit announced Friday that it settled the “first classwide lawsuit for health care workers over a COVID shot mandate” in the United States. The settlement awards those workers more than $10.3 million.
Liberty Counsel brought the lawsuit against NorthShore University HealthSystem, located in the suburbs of Chicago, on behalf of more than 500 current and former workers who objected to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds.
These employees refused the vaccination due to its association with aborted fetal cells, according to Liberty Counsel.
The settlement was filed in the federal Northern District Court of Illinois, where it waits to be approved. In the settlement, NorthShore agrees to change its policy and consider rehiring workers who left because their religious-exemption requests were denied.
NorthShore estimates that 523 workers requested and were denied religious exemption or accommodation to its policy requiring COVID-19 vaccination between July 1, 2021, and Jan. 1, 2022, according to the settlement. Of those, NorthShore estimates that 204 complied with the requirement, while 269 were discharged or resigned based on their religious objection to a COVID-19 vaccine.
The settlement notes that Northshore approved the religious exemption and accommodation request from one person.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith also issued a note on the morality of vaccines, addressing concerns about their connection to abortion. It found that “when ethically irreproachable COVID-19 vaccines are not available … it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process.”
The note also cautioned against mandates, while emphasizing that Catholics must consider the common good in their decision.
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$10.3 million each would have been equitable. They shouldn’t have settled for less.
Yeah ... rejecting the creepy synthetic mRNA experiment is definitely promoting the common good.
20k apiece for a year or more out of work is pretty meager.
Most of them likely found other employment.
That is wrong unless they moved to Florida. (I am not aware of other states that have rejected the CMS overreach… it would literally ost them federal dollars). CMS mandates apply to literally every healthcare entity that accepts federal medicare dollars.
I know this is true, because I cannot get a job in my career of 40 years.
So, no 20k is not even close.
Operation warp the lives of faithful and highly experienced healthcare workers has done its job.
2. Anyone among the plaintiffs who isn’t content with the settlement can refuse to accept it and take further legal action against the employer.
They could have found jobs with health care facilities that were willing to grant their religious exemption requests.
It’s a pittance.
In my neck of the woods the only new health system hires appear to be H1Bs.
Citizens need not apply.
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