Defense Department Gets Religious Workers’ Covid Tests Suit Axed

The US Department of Defense is free of claims that it discriminated against religious workers who skipped Covid-19 shots when it made them undergo weekly testing even after an injunction blocked mandatory vaccines.

The two workers, brothers who worked as civilian employees at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, didn’t show that the weekly testing requirement counted as a “personnel action” under the section of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that applies when the employer is part of the federal government, the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma said Thursday.

The Covid ...