EEOC Sues Mayo Clinic Over Denial of Covid Shot Accommodations

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the Mayo Clinic, alleging the health system violated civil rights law when it failed to grant a security guard a religious accommodation to its Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Minnesota Wednesday, said that providing an accommodation for Cody Schultz “would not have imposed an undue hardship on Mayo.”

Schultz, a security guard at Mayo, sought to be excused from the company’s Covid vaccine requirement for employees in 2021, stating that taking the vaccine would go against his beliefs as ...