Nurses win historic lawsuit for religious exemptions

Today, Liberty Counsel settled the nation’s first classwide lawsuit for health care workers over a COVID shot mandate, for more than $10.3 million. The class action settlement against NorthShore University HealthSystem is on behalf of more than 500 current and former health care workers who were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate.

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This is a historic, first-of-its-kind class action settlement against a private employer who unlawfully denied hundreds of religious exemption requests to COVID-19 shots.

— Liberty Counsel, July 29, 2022

The nation’s first class action settlement involving a COVID shot mandate should be a wake-up call to every employer that did not accommodate or exempt employees who opposed the COVID shots for religious reasons. NorthShore University HealthSystem will pay more than $10.3 million for unlawfully discriminating against more than 500 current and former health care workers and for denying religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate.

— Liberty Counsel, August 1, 2022

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  July 29, 2022. John F. Kness. Doe 1, et al., v. NorthShore University HealthSystem, [PROPOSED] CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division.
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