Religious Rows on Pronoun Policy, Weekend Work Loom in New Year

As Covid-19 vaccine exemption lawsuits wane, other religious worker accommodations will drive both private litigation and ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Religious vaccine exemption cases consolidated

Fourteenth Circuit Judge Michael Froble, seen here at a July hearing, ruled Monday afternoon in Raleigh County Circuit Court to consolidate two cases involving West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Kanawha County judge dismisses case to block Morrisey’s religious vaccine exemption order

ACLU of West Virginia Legal Director Aubrey Sparks, left, argues against a motion to dismiss a lawsuit Wednesday brought by the ACLU-WV and Mountain State Justice before 8th Judicial Circuit Court ...
Canadian HR Reporter

Energy giant defeats worker's request for religious exemption from COVID vaccine mandate

The heavy equipment operator described himself as a born-again Christian who opposed abortion and objected to fetal cells ...
Law

Commonwealth Court Holds Termination for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Doesn't Bar Workers’ Comp Benefits

In the five years since the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been an increasing sense by many that the U.S. federal government, state governments, and private institutions overreached when they used their ...
West Virginia MetroNews

State health agency could have sought more detail for religious exemptions but did not

West Virginia public health officials acknowledge that families seeking religious exemptions to school vaccination policies do not have to elaborate on their beliefs. All that families seeking such ...
HR Dive

3M successfully showed undue hardship in religious bias vaccination case

3M won summary judgment on a religious accommodation claim because “ample, undisputed evidence” showed it would suffer an undue hardship if it exempted a patient support employee from its COVID-19 ...
HR Dive

Firefighters’ vaccine exemption lawsuit fails SCOTUS’ updated religious test, court says

The lawsuit is one of several to test the high court’s Groff precedent, which clarified that an employee’s proposed workplace accommodation of a sincerely held religious belief or practice may only ...
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Gov. Morrisey issues guidance on religious exemptions for school vaccine requirements

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — West Virginia’s governor has issued guidance regarding an executive order allowing exemptions for childhood vaccines after legislatures failed to pass a related bill and a ...
Yahoo

Some 300 West Virginia school vaccine exemptions granted under new, laxer policy

Healthcare professional in protective gloves & workwear holding & organising a tray of COVID-19 vaccine vials The West Virginia Department of Health has approved just over 330 requests for religious ...
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Some 300 W. Virginia School Vaccine Exemptions Granted Under New, Laxer Policy

Just over 330 requests for religious and philosophical exemptions to West Virginia’s school vaccine policy have been submitted — and approved — for this school year and 35 have been granted for the ...