Posted on 07/01/2024 11:33:37 AM PDT by CFW
Former BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST) employee Tanja Benton has been awarded over $680,000 by a Tennessee federal jury following a verdict that the insurer failed to offer reasonable accommodation for her religious beliefs.
The jury concluded that BCBST “did not prove by a preponderance of the evidence either that it had offered a reasonable accommodation to Plaintiff or that it could not reasonably accommodate the Plaintiff’s religious beliefs without undue hardship.”
The total damages awarded to Benton amounted to $687,240, which included $177,240 in back pay, $10,000 in compensatory damages, and $500,000 in punitive damages.
In a related case, a group of employees terminated by BCBST for a Title VII violation concerning religious discrimination linked to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate are currently litigating against the state’s largest health insurer.
(Excerpt) Read more at insurancebusinessmag.com ...
Now they have to pay out the butt for violating constitutional rights
Sue every such employer!
This happened to a fellow team member at L.A. Care Health plan. It was required for employees that they had to load their vaccination cards to the employee’s HR page. I had already bought I.
Hubby’s employer did exact same thing. Group filed w EEOC. Waiting on out come of investigation. This gives us hope!
Now I’m wishing my company would have mandated it.
Thanks CFW.
*PING* to the rest of you.
First crack in the dam.
Hallelujah!
Seen elsewhere.
This looks like it might make the FRoctors angry.
They have to admit they were wrong, first.
Don't see that happening.
There were companies covered by Deep State’s vaxx mandate that didn’t fire refusenik employees...
Anyone else wondering how and why those companies got away with that...?
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-07-01-biden-ordered-amazon-hide-books-criticizing-vaccines.html
More news to annoy the Froctors.
Because SCIENCE™!
Because SCIENCE™!
And just who is anti-science????
Those of us who are skeptical of products created in the name of *science* and *vaccines* in violation of scientific protocol?
Or those who ignore it and push their agenda contrary to it?
We weren’t anti-vaxxers. We were defending what vaccines were truly supposed to be. Corrupting science to push medical experimentation on unwilling masses in the name of science is a betrayal of science itself and demonically fueled deceit.
At best.
(From the article): " Former BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST) employee Tanja Benton has been awarded over $680,000 by a Tennessee federal jury
following a verdict that the insurer failed to offer reasonable accommodation for her religious beliefs."
"The jury concluded that BCBST “did not prove by a preponderance of the evidence either that it had offered a reasonable accommodation to Plaintiff
or that it could not reasonably accommodate the Plaintiff’s religious beliefs without undue hardship.”
" The total damages awarded to Benton amounted to $687,240, which included $177,240 in back pay, $10,000 in compensatory damages,
and $500,000 in punitive damages.
(My Opinion) : This decision by a federal jury trial establishes a legal precedent that employers need to make accommodations for religious beliefs without undue hardship.
(Post #16)grey_whiskers : " Because SCIENCE™!
Creating a false rabbit hole with doctored data
This isn't just malpractice, this is pure malevolence
Just greed and desire for fame.
Not the disinterested pursuit of pure knowledge for its own sake that science is sold as.
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