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Around 150 former Houston Methodist employees who were terminated or resigned over the firm’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate are demanding their jobs back.Attorney Jared Woodfill, who’s representing dozens of health care workers in several lawsuits against Houston Methodist, said those employees should get their jobs back following Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent executive order barring any entity in the state from imposing vaccine mandates.“Gov. Abbott says very clearly, ‘Whereas countless Texans fear losing their livelihoods because they object to receiving a COVID-19 vaccination for reasons of personal conscience,'” Woodfill wrote in a letter to the hospital system this week. “That applies...

More than 150 former Houston Methodist employees who parted ways with the hospital in June over a vaccine mandate policy will demand to be rehired after Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday banning any entity in the state from implementing such mandates, according to a lawyer representing the former employees. Attorney Jared Woodfill, who currently represents almost 200 healthcare workers in multiple lawsuits against Methodist, said executive order GA-40 makes the hospital’s policy illegal. “Governor Abbott says very clearly, ‘whereas countless Texans fear losing their livelihoods because they object to receiving a COVID-19 vaccination for reasons of...

More than 170 health care workers at a Houston, Texas, hospital were reportedly suspended for two weeks without pay this week for choosing to not get the coronavirus vaccine by the hospital’s Monday deadline, which the hospital requires of its workers. The employees will be fired after the two weeks if they don’t get vaccinated, FOX 4 in Dallas reported. Houston Methodist Hospital President and CEO Marc Boom said that 99% of it more than 25,000 workers had been vaccinated by the deadline. "It is unfortunate that today’s milestone of Houston Methodist becoming the safest hospital system in the country...