104 results for 'cat:"Covid-19" AND cat:"Employment Discrimination"'.
J. Aiken dismisses the respiratory therapist's complaint alleging that the healthcare company placed her on unpaid administrative leave after it granted her a religious exception for the Covid-19 vaccine. The respiratory therapist says that taking the vaccine would violate "the purity of her body," but she does not explain how or what specific religious beliefs taking the vaccine violates.
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: Aiken, Filed On: February 21, 2024, Case #: 6:23cv12, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, covid-19, employment Discrimination
J. Immergut declines to dismiss the executive assistant's complaint that the hospital wrongfully denied her a religious exemption for the Covid-19 vaccine and fired her one month after her request. The hospital argues about the particularities of the executive assistant's religious beliefs, which is not enough to dismiss the complaint, and the hospital does not show that it would have suffered undue hardship if it did accommodate her religious beliefs.
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: Immergut, Filed On: February 15, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv216, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, covid-19, employment Discrimination
J. White finds for the employer in a religious discrimination suit filed by a nurse who was fired for refusing to get a Covid-19 vaccine. The hospital has a readily apparent religious affiliation and purpose, regardless that the majority of its workforce do not practice the Catholic religion. Therefore, as a religious organization, the hospital is exempt from religious discrimination claims.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Missouri, Judge: White, Filed On: February 12, 2024, Case #: 4:22cv1113, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: covid-19, employment Discrimination
J. Oliver grants the employer's motion for summary judgment, ruling the female vice president cannot establish a prima facie case for sex discrimination. None of the male vice presidents she names as comparators decided to take an international vacation immediately after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic and shortly after other disciplinary issues; therefore, the male comparators are not similarly situated.
Court: USDC Connecticut, Judge: Oliver, Filed On: February 8, 2024, Case #: 3:21cv770, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: covid-19, employment Discrimination
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J. Nelson dismisses the lecturer's complaint that the university did not approve the lecturer a religious exception to the Covid-19 vaccine mandate, placing her on unpaid leave. The lecturer does not establish that the university or its staff substantially burdened her religious practices or beliefs, and the lecturer does not provide any precedent supporting her argument that a medical exception process would "have a tendency to coerce individuals into acting contrary to their religious beliefs."
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: Nelson, Filed On: February 8, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv1254, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, covid-19, employment Discrimination
J. Donnelly dismisses a case worker’s disability discrimination and retaliation complaint against New York City’s Human Resources Administration, claiming she was denied an exemption from its Covid-19 vaccine mandate and was fired after refusing to get vaccinated. The agency is not a suable entity, and she fails to specify what, if any, disability she actually suffers from that would be a basis for her claims.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Donnelly, Filed On: February 8, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv6307, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Ada / Rehabilitation Act, covid-19, employment Discrimination
J. Alston grants the government's motion to dismiss. The government employee tried for the third time, after being dismissed in two identical cases, to sue the government for mandating all federal employees become fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but his claims are barred by res judicata.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Virginia, Judge: Alston, Filed On: February 1, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv671, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Government, covid-19, employment Discrimination
J. Zilly grants the fire station summary judgment against the employees' complaint alleging that it placed them on unpaid leave for not receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. The employees argue that the fire station already required employees to wear masks and that the masks and PPE would be enough to prevent the spread of Covid-19. However, unvaccinated firefighters would increase the risk of spreading Covid-19 because masks and PPE are only effective when worn, and firefighters could not always wear them.
Court: USDC Western District of Washington, Judge: Zilly, Filed On: January 25, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv1674, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, covid-19, employment Discrimination
J. Shea grants, in part, the employer's motion to dismiss, ruling the employee who missed a month of work after she tested positive for Covid-19 cannot bring disability discrimination claims. The illness did not involve serious or prolonged symptoms that required accommodations upon her return or could otherwise be considered a disability. However, the temporal proximity between the employee's protected activity under the Family and Medical Leave Act and her termination immediately after returning to work is sufficient to allow the FMLA retaliation claim to proceed.
Court: USDC Connecticut, Judge: Shea, Filed On: January 11, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv123, NOS: Amer w/Disabilities-Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Ada / Rehabilitation Act, covid-19, employment Discrimination
J. Otake denies class certification to former and current Hawaiian Airlines employees who were not granted medical or religious accommodation from the airline’s Covid-19 vaccination policy. Based on the wide range of how the airline determined their accommodation status, including variations of exact job positions and work locations, evidence for potential class members would not be the same and would still require individualized assessments.
Court: USDC Hawaii, Judge: Otake, Filed On: December 11, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv532, NOS: Civil Rights - Habeas Corpus, Categories: covid-19, employment Discrimination, Class Action
J. Stearns denies current and former employees’ motion for preliminary injunctive relief against their employer for denying them religious exemptions to Covid-19 vaccination. For their work, the employees closely interacted in-person with a wide range of people, including children, immunocompromised individuals and the elderly, and approving religious exemptions from the vaccine would put their customers at risk, and the denial of the exemptions did not involve simultaneously permitting secular exemptions that posed a similar risk. The granting of medical exemptions furthers the same goal of safety as rejecting the religious ones.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Stearns, Filed On: December 11, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv10242, NOS: Civil Rights - Habeas Corpus, Categories: Employment, covid-19, employment Discrimination
J. Kacsmaryk denies, in part, Tyson's motion to dismiss a former poultry plant maintenance worker's religious discrimination and retaliation claims. The worker has sufficiently pleaded the company's proposed accommodation for those who refused the Covid-19 vaccination - 1-year unpaid leave or immediate termination - was not a genuine accommodation for his religious objection to vaccines.
Court: USDC Northern District of Texas , Judge: Kacsmaryk, Filed On: December 8, 2023, Case #: 2:23cv41, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: covid-19, employment Discrimination, Employment Retaliation