McKesson Faces Faith Accommodation Trial Over Covid Vaccine Rule

A jury must decide if McKesson Corp. failed to accommodate three sales employees’ religious objections to receiving Covid-19 vaccination and fired them instead, a federal judge in Phoenix ruled.

The decision Thursday is the latest to say a worker’s beliefs don’t necessarily lose protection under federal law prohibiting religious discrimination just because they overlap with secular concerns. The US District Court for the District of Arizona declined to wade into a conflict on the issue among federal appeals courts, saying US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit case law signals a cautious “approach to scrutinizing the validity” of a ...