If you were fired for refusing the COVID vaccine you might have a case, get ready for the

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Following BCBST's announcement of a vaccine requirement, Benton submitted a request for a religious exemption, but the company denied it and told her she could not keep her job unless she complied.

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were you asleep in 2020 & 2021

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government said frick your exemptions; get the jab or lose your livelihood, jack.

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In a pair of related rulings in Hayes v. University Health Shreveport, LLC, and Nelson v. Ochsner Lafayette General, the Supreme Court of Louisiana held on January 7, 2022, that private Louisiana employers may mandate COVID-19 vaccines for their employees.

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No, that isn’t how it went in healthcare or private business. The government sector also had exemptions BTW

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Never got a single booster

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Employers with vaccine mandates in place already report being inundated with worker requests for exemption from any requirement to get their shots. Roughly 2,600 Los Angeles Police Department employees are claiming religious objections to the department's COVID-19 vaccination requirement, according to the Associated Press. And in Washington state, some 3,800 state workers are have requested religious exemptions to Gov. Jay Inslee's mandate that workers be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18 or lose their job, unless they receive an accommodation.

It is new territory for many employers navigating the issue, given how risky a proposition it is to allow unvaccinated employees to mingle with, and possibly infect, colleagues in the workplace.

Many large corporations already require COVID-19 vaccination to keep employees safe from the virus, and must, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, offer exemptions to individuals with either a disability or "sincerely held" religious belief that prevents them from getting the vaccine.

The Biden administration's broad prevention measures announced Thursday expand vaccine mandates further, affecting roughly 100 million Americans and shining a new light on exemption claims and how employers can verify their legitimacy.

No major religious denomination in the U.S. opposes vaccination outright. But an individual's "sincerely held" religious belief does not have to be part of an organized-religion mandate to be considered a valid reason for exemption from getting the vaccine.

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Employers in the past have been inclined to give workers the benefit of the doubt and to accept any requests on the basis of religious beliefs as genuine. But given the high-stakes nature of the coronavirus, they are now giving such requests a second look.

"The employer generally has to go with the idea that the employee's request is based on their sincerely held religious belief. But if the employer has an objective basis for questioning its sincerity, the employer is justified to seek additional information," said Keith Wilkes, an employment attorney at Tulsa, Oklahoma-based firm Hall Estill.

"It is always possible that a local church or temple does in fact espouse a view that vaccination is contrary to religious beliefs, so there is room for the employer to dig deeper on those sorts of requests," Wilkes said.

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