Trinity Well being Grand Rapids, a Michigan hospital, has agreed to settle a lawsuit after denying job candidates a non secular exemption from the flu vaccine.
The employee is to obtain $50,000.
“As a part of the settlement, the hospital should prepare its executives and human assets workers about Title VII's non secular protections,” Liberty Counsel wrote.
After the claimant filed a non secular exemption, the hospital mentioned the declare was “inadequate” with out offering a proof. Title VII calls on employers to make “affordable” lodging for non secular workers so long as the lodging doesn’t pose an “undue hardship” to the employer, Liberty Counsel defined, outlining tips set by the U.S. Equal Employment Alternative Fee (EEOC).
Based on the rules, non secular perception is “largely a matter of particular person credibility” and “is just not normally contested”.
The EEOC sued the hospital, alleging that it confirmed “reckless indifference” to the claimant's rights.
Liberty founder and board chairman Mat Staver mentioned of the settlement, “Federal legislation requires employers to accommodate sincerely held non secular beliefs until the employer can reveal that doing so would end in an undue hardship. Workers ought to by no means have to decide on between their religion and their work.”
