J&J Beats Christian Worker’s Suit Over Covid Nasal Swab Testing

A Johnson & Johnson Services Inc. employee failed with claims that she was denied accommodation for and fired because of her Christian-based religious objection to nasal swab testing for Covid-19.

Relieving the former executive cardiovascular sales specialist of the need to undergo daily testing would have been an accommodation from an accommodation, as the company had already granted her a religious-based exemption from Covid vaccination, the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania said. J&J was entitled to dismissal of her Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act claims because she ...