7th Circuit: Woman Fired Over Vaccine Owes Legal Fees After Arbitration Challenge

( February 4, 2025, 5:35 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit panel affirmed a trial court’s referral to arbitration and dismissal of a complaint by a former employee of a health care software company who alleges that she was illegally terminated for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine and awarded sanctions for the employee’s “uniformly frivolous” objections to arbitration but also noted that the lower court should have stayed the case instead of dismissing it....