High Court Religious Bias Decision Paves Way for EEOC Vax Suits

The EEOC’s first-ever lawsuits filed against companies over failure to grant employee religious exemptions to Covid-19 vaccine policies signal the commission may be ready to bring many more such cases now that a US Supreme Court decision has eased their path.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week filed a pair of lawsuits under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act against Hank’s Furniture and United Healthcare Services Inc. The agency claimed that both companies didn’t accommodate their employees’ sincerely held beliefs because they refused to let them opt out of the vaccines.

Following the Supreme Court’s Groff v. ...