EEOC Sues 2 Businesses for Firing Workers Over COVID Vaccine Refusal

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars discrimination over religion.

COVID-19 vaccines in a file photograph. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued two businesses for firing workers who had sought religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

United Healthcare Services, a Cleveland-based health care provider, and Arkansas-based Hank’s Furniture violated federal law when denying the exemption requests and firing the workers, according to the suits.