We are all staying quiet. I know 18k asked for exemptions (including me). I only know one other person - we are close and hired a lawyer together, just in case. The company has something like 150k employees.
Thank you for sharing. That is mega!
I am self employed as a handyman and have no idea what it is like for you... God speed.
It should be illegal for an employer to force medical procedures, and there are dozens of good reasons not to get the shot. But the religious exemption is the least likely to be challenged, will be very difficult for an employer to deny, and by far the easiest claim to make. So a lot of people are going that route, even if they have other objections.
That's what I figured. I filed both but figure only the religious one will be approved. I'm sure they can find reasons to argue a medical one. The lawyer said if they deny the religious one for either one of us, he will help us appeal and we assume a lawyer would be enough to scare them into accepting.
It does kind of sound like we will be thrown on a 'to be replaced with offshore' list, though. This is all insane. No one has the right to demand I take any kind of medical treatment.
Yep, thr medical exemption is probably a lotbharder to argue since it kind of requires a doctor to vouch for it. And it has to be renewed regularly. Religious exemption is forever. It might actually make it less likely to get your job offshored. If they singled you out, you could legally argue that it was discrimination based on religion. I honestly think that's a big part of the reason that HR departments really don't want to grant religious exemptions. It makes them do extra work before firing someone in order to avoid lawsuits.
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