Case: Discrimination/Religious Accommodation (W.D. Va.)

A Virginia federal district court partially granted employees’ motion for class certification in their Title VII of the Civil Rights Act religious discrimination action against the University of Virginia Health System, certifying a class of employees who requested religious accommodations from Covid-19 vaccination but weren’t members of UVA Health’s six “established religions” and suffered adverse employment action, finding that UVA Health’s policy of presumptively approving exemptions for adherents of six favored religions while subjecting other employees to heightened scrutiny created a common question of whether this procedure violated Title VII by treating some religious beliefs as more valid than others. ...