Mayo Clinic Workers’ Religious Bias Suit Over Covid Shot Revived

The Mayo Clinic and related entities must face religious discrimination lawsuits by five health-care workers fired after being denied exemption from the companies’ Covid-19 vaccination mandate and testing requirements, the Eighth Circuit ruled Friday.

The workers connected their religion to their objections to the companies’ Covid safety measures under federal pleading rules, the court said.

It agreed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that an overlap between a political and a religious view doesn’t place the view outside the scope of the religious discrimination protections of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The EEOC backed two of the workers ...