Retailer Settles EEOC Suit Over Employee’s COVID-19 Vaccine Religious Beliefs

(July 19, 2024, 10:08 AM EDT) -- PENSACOLA, Fla. — A furniture retailer will pay $110,000 to end a lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that accused the employer of failing to accommodate an employee’s request for religious exemption from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate and then fired her for failure to be vaccinated, according to a consent decree signed by a federal judge in Florida on July 18....