Kaiser Defeats Newly Hired Nurse’s Vaccine Religious Bias Claims

A Kaiser Permanente affiliate didn’t discriminate against a Christian nurse when it denied her request for a religious accommodation to its Covid-19 vaccine mandate and revoked her job offer, a federal court ruled.

The worker didn’t plausibly alleges that she sincerely holds the religious beliefs outlined in her complaint, that those beliefs conflict with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc.'s vaccine requirements, or that non-religious workers received better treatment, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said Monday.

Plaintiff Naisha Tyiease Chinnery landed a job at a Kaiser medical center in Northern Virginia in ...