Former workers from Akron Children’s Hospital who were fired after refusing to comply with the hospital’s vaccine mandate are now taking their battle to federal court.
The 66 workers are represented in a class-action lawsuit that argues they were denied religious accommodations and that the hospital violated their First Amendment rights.
“I believe it's very clearly unconstitutional,” said Warner Mendenhall, the attorney representing the former hospital workers.“These people have been working in the pandemic for two years. They've been exposed. All of them have natural immunity and the exemptions–by not granting the exemption, Akron Children's is hurting services to the community,” said Mendenhall.
“Employers are allowed to have requirements, and health care providers traditionally have required flu vaccines, TB tests, all sorts of things,” said Sharona Hoffman, a professor of law and bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
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