Posted on 02/14/2022 6:25:10 PM PST by marshmallow
HERSHEY, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) – The Hershey Company recently fired several unvaccinated workers who sought religious exemptions from the COVID-19 jab mandate, in some cases citing Pope Francis’ support for the abortion-tainted vaccines.
Office workers interviewed by The Epoch Times said that the company subjected them to months of meetings pressuring them to get jabbed, as well as invasive questions about their faith and personal lives that some described as “interrogation.”
“I really thought I’d be OK,” said Kim Durham, a sourcing buyer and payment analyst who left Hershey in January. “I thought, you cannot question my faith. Nobody can question that.”
Durham told The Epoch Times that she requested a religious accommodation in August without expecting her vaccination status to become a problem. But at a meeting with an HR representative the following month, Durham was repeatedly questioned about her religious reliefs and other personal matters “that had nothing to do with religion,” she recalled.
“It was an interrogation on your religious beliefs,” she said. “They twisted your words and tried to put words in your mouth. It was terrible. I was asked such personal questions that had nothing to do with religion.”
Durham said that Hershey ultimately denied her exemption request in November. She had only worked in-person once every two weeks, and mask and temperature checks were mandatory for all on-site work, she noted.
“We are losing our jobs over this vaccine policy,” Durham said. “It’s just wrong that a company can terminate you, and you lose your livelihood. This should not be forced.”
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Damn. I’ll have to give up my Reese’s Easter eggs now.
Too many people think the pope is the authority over “religion”. Wrong!
And my Hershey’s chocolate bars.
Ping to Chocolate Town...
Regarding employment at Hershey’s, vax status should never be a bar.
Zitner’s makes good Easter Eggs. I’ve had two with Coconut so far. Waiting for the peanut butter.
And when the fed and state authorities stop all vax mandates once they realize how many votes they will lose, and stops the mandates; what then to the terminated?
No unemployment, no recourse.
Sue for religious discrimination and harrassment. File complaint w EEOC. this BS needs to be stopped.
Does Hershey’s realize that Protestants do not recognize the authority of the Pope?
I'm a Russel Stover and Cadbury girl from now on.
Just amazing how the “pandemic” has coaxed out so many corporations’ inner Nazi.
Don’t forget the Kit Kats. I passed them by the other day when I heard what they were doing to the unvaxxed workers. No Hershey’s served today.
Hershey,
Rat Bastards.
How can they require the use of non-approved shots . . . NONE of the available injections has full FDA approval, all are still emergency use only.
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Are companies using this as an excuse to downsize?
Hopefully the Vatican will get sued—and this is yet another reason to revoke their tax exempt status.
The anti-Pope is evil.
Hershey’s owns Cadbury.
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