The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District must pay around $7.8 million to six former employees who lost their jobs after seeking religious exemptions to the agency’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for workers.
A jury for the US District Court for the Northern District of California returned the verdict on Wednesday, which specified over $1 million in damages for each former employee.
The jury in an earlier phase of the trial had rejected BART’s primary defense that the public transit agency couldn’t reasonably accommodate the employees seeking religious exemptions without an undue hardship.
The case is one of hundreds from ...
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