Ohio Hospital Workers Get Covid Shot Religious Bias Suit Revived

MetroHealth System must face religious discrimination claims by two of 46 employees challenging the health-care provider’s decision to categorically deny all requests for religious exemption from its Covid-19 vaccine mandate, the Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday.

That blanket denial was later reversed by the Cleveland-based healthcare provider, which then categorically granted all religious exemption requests, the court said. Some of the employees who sued had resigned by then, while the rest of the 46 plaintiffs all still worked at MetroHealth, the court said.

Two of the workers who resigned adequately alleged that the circumstances left them no other choice, as it ...