The suit, filed on behalf of more than five dozen workers, alleges Ascension Health 'established a coercive process calculated to force healthcare workers and staff to abandon their religious objections' to the vaccine.
The class-action lawsuit alleges Ascension Health, which owns St. Vincent, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by denying those requests.
The lawsuit alleges Ascension Health failed to assess and establish how making such accommodations would pose undue hardship as required by Title VII. It further claims employees were told if they were unvaccinated they would be suspended without pay on Nov. 12 through Dec. 17, 2021, then"voluntarily resigned" on Jan. 4 if they still hadn't received the vaccine. Ascension Healthcare later allowed previously suspended unvaccinated employees to return to work,"with no restrictions beyond those imposed on vaccinated employees," it claims.
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