The Mayo Clinic is facing a lawsuit from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The suit claims the hospital refused to make a religious exception to its mandatory COVID-19 staff vaccination policy.
According to the EEOC, the Mayo Clinic, which operates hospitals in Arizona and Minnesota, violated a staff member’s “conscience and religious beliefs” when it refused to grant his request for a reasonable accommodation to its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.
The employee, a security guard in a non-medical role, offered to be tested for the virus and wear a mask. Instead, the suit claims the hospital threatened to fire the employee, effectively forcing him to receive the vaccine.
The EEOC is seeking monetary damages, including compensatory and punitive damages.
