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BART workers fired owed to COVID vaccine mandate to get implicit $1M eachA national assemblage has sided with fired BART workers who sued the bureau claiming they mislaid their jobs implicit a COVID vaccine mandate.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A national assemblage has sided with fired Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who sued the bureau claiming they mislaid their jobs implicit a COVID vaccine mandate.
There are six of them full successful the suit and each volition person much than $1 million.
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The employees claimed spiritual exemptions to the vaccine mandate but accidental they were not accommodated by the transit agency, and subsequently mislaid their job.
BART did initially assistance vaccine exemptions, but the plaintiffs argued they weren't accommodated. An accommodation could person meant that they were capable to enactment from location oregon get tested regularly for COVID. They argued nary of that happened and they mislaid their jobs.
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On the eve of Thanksgiving, galore unvaccinated BART employees learned their requests for a spiritual exemption to the COVID vaccine mandate was denied.
In total, BART indispensable present wage a combined $7.8 cardinal to each six erstwhile employees.
BART is simply a transit bureau that is already betwixt $350 and $400 cardinal successful the red, but BART's committee of directors did ballot 8 to 1 for the vaccine mandate successful 2021.
BART has not commented connected Wednesday's decision.
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