Judge allows religious exemptions to vaccine mandate for NY healthcare workers
Judge David Hurd issued a temporary restraining order last month after a group of health care professionals sued, arguing the vaccine mandate violated their constitutional rights.
https://thehill.com/changing-americ...-judge-allows-religious-exemptions-to-vaccine
That's normal given to occur for healthcare workers because some in fact have a strong religious history (connection) with their religion...protection from the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Thus, after the court grants such, those seeking must then prove each individual qualifies for a religious exemption. Many are not able even though the court has ruled its allowed if they can prove it.
Simply, “you can’t just grab onto a biblical verse when it’s convenient,”...each person seeking the religious exemption will need to prove their connection and it will be checked / verified.
Thus, if you're going to seek a religious exemption from vaccination, you need to start documenting your religious connection. You must in fact already be part of organized religion, with strict vaccine beliefs.
- There simply are not that many religions in the world that have that as a tenet.
For example, an ER nurse that's Jewish and an active member of her religion and then qualifies for a religious exemption from vaccination...she most likely will be reassigned to different job duties so that she no longer has contact with patients in the ER.
- There is then the social interaction issue with her vaccinated co-workers.
My sister works with a nurse that has a religious exemption that has a well-known strict rule against vaccination long before the Pandemic...she still works in the medical field but in a different job that she was trained and educated.
Today, she still works at the same hospital but pays for her own routine testing and has already been suspended 3x without pay because she failed to submit her tests by the designated date/time to continue working.
As I've stated, religious exemptions do happen...its tough to qualify for one after the court approves that someone can request one and then they'll be reassigned to a different job position if the job they had been working required contact with patients. On top of that, they'll then be subjected to weekly Covid testing.
Regardless of all the above, the patient (if conscious) still determines if they want a healthcare worker that's not vaccinated to be working on them. Most Doctors and Nurses are vaccinated. Thus, healthcare workers given a religious exemption will be a small percentage of the healthcare workers.
P.S. If you're a healthcare worker that plans to seek a religious exemption...be prepare to prove your connection to your religion if your employer wants you to prove such. Then you need to plan for the possibility of being reassigned to a different position if your job requires you to have contact with patients.
P.S.S. Statistically, more people qualify for medical exemptions than religious exemptions.
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