Posted on 11/26/2023 6:22:14 AM PST by george76
While Covid-19 has all but disappeared from the national discourse, lawsuits tied to vaccination mandates are hitting courts in North Carolina.
Jenna Johlin-Thompson, a former account executive at television station WSFX in Wilmington, is suing the company over her refusal to get vaccinated.
Johlin-Thompson, who filed her lawsuit in federal court Nov. 17, relocated to North Carolina from Ohio in 2021 to work at WSFX, which is owned by Charlotte-based American Spirit Media. Within months of her hire, she received an email regarding mandated Covid-19 vaccinations.
While she was told to “trust the science,” Johlin-Thompson believed her “body is a temple for God,” and refused the vaccination, the lawsuit says.
As an apparent compromise, she was required to submit to weekly Covid-19 tests. Within weeks of that arrangement, she lost her building access and was required to work from home due to her vaccination status. She said her job was further complicated by her lack of in-person meetings.
She said her salary was eliminated and replaced with commission payments only, and that employee reviews were “inaccurate” and written in a way to force a termination.
She resigned in September 2022, submitting a claim with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission claiming religious discrimination. The lawsuit, filed by attorney Benjamin McLawhorn, asks for monetary relief to the tune of $300,000, and general damages equating to another $200,000, as well as attorneys fees.
The lawsuit is one of multiple cases circulating the docket centered on vaccine policies.
The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources recently filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the North Carolina Symphony. In that case, a group of musicians filed a federal lawsuit claiming they were fired over their refusal to vaccinate.
The plaintiffs, musicians Christopher Caudill, Rachel Niketopoulos and David Friedlander, claimed they could not receive a vaccine “without compromising their faith” and requested accommodations for their Buddhist and Judaism beliefs.
According to law firm Seyfarth, the EEOC saw the number of charges leap by 10,000 in fiscal year 2022 – a jump almost entirely attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Seyfarth, the year saw a 600 percent spike in religious discrimination claims, with many filed by employees looking for exemptions to companies’ Covid-19 vaccine mandates.
But the success of these kinds of lawsuits is a mixed bag, says Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University. Hoffman is not familiar with the North Carolina cases, but says some plaintiffs have been successful, as people are typically entitled to religious accommodations. "But the employer is also entitled to investigate that to determine if it's really a bona fide religious belief that's at stake," she said, adding that the outcome can depend on what accommodations were offered and what employers are able to prove.
Mandating should be against the Law
Newmont Mining sued over vaxx mandate.. Dan Janney was a former boss of Rio Tinto’s Australian coal mines.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4148702/posts
The “religious exemption” approach really irritates me.
I don’t want an untested and potentially dangerous jab put in my arm.
That has nothing to do with religion.
Physician Assistant Fired for Reporting COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events to VAERS.. ~ Deborah Conrad.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4139676/posts
Thank you. I agree. My manager wanted me to take the “religious exemption.” I told her it had nothing to do with faith and that I would not use God as an excuse not to get vaccinated. Forcing me to take the vaccine or else lose employment is what I was against, and I told her so. No one should be forced to take anything they don’t want. I was terminated. Now I am wondering if I should pursue a lawsuit as I am still irked over it all.
Next they are going to want us to get a religious exemption for not getting run over by a truck or struck by lightning.
;-)
These scamdemic lawsuits were predicted months and months ago.
Some attorneys will take such cases on a contingency basis where they don’t get paid unless you win.
What you need is Saul, a junkyard dog attorney who takes no prisoners.
They wear cheap suits, yell at their employees and have offices in the bad part of town.
Companies want to settle to keep that kind of attorney out of their hair.
The real culprit behind all this is this government. They use the power of coercion, extortion and other threats like withholding government grants, funds or payouts (or just plain regulatory harassment) IF their will is not done. They do this because they can’t do it on their own because it’s illegal, IMO. The classic example of fascism.
Waiting until the thousands of suing lawyers go after the Covid liars and mandate fascists in all of our fifty states.
Seems like unvaccinated migrants got everything they wanted and still are.only elderly and teens were pressured full on for the vax. The Democrats want to kill off certain generations.
I don't know if it violates the law but it sure as hell violates the Nuremburg Agreement.
The FIRST SENTENCE of the Nuremburg Agreement reads:
The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
I think your lawsuit would not be successful in a Constitutional sense, not in this political lawfare world. The vaccine mandate has and is still from unelected bureaucrats. There must be a compelling reason other than I don’t want to, if you disobey your masters. That ship sailed once we told Trump we would definitely obey, hide at home and mask up, have our travel restricted by him. J6 is enough to tell you that they are afraid of you, but will definitely imprison you indefinitely without cause. He didn’t say much about the gulag, but he is still praising his big pharma blank checks, lockdowns and paying people to stay home.
I slid e that’s true.
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