AstraZeneca Gets Workers’ Covid-19 Faith Bias Suit Narrowed

AstraZeneca‘s bid to dismiss some claims from workers who asserted religious objections to its Covid-19 vaccination mandate proved successful when a federal court adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendations in full.

Through two asserted classes, the workers alleged that AstraZeneca failed to properly consider their religious objections to the vaccine—a religious process class—and that because some workers had natural immunity to Covid-19, they shouldn’t have been forced to choose between their livelihood or their religious beliefs—a natural immunity class. However, a magistrate judge for the US District Court for the District of Delaware said that their complaint didn’t contain any ...