I hired a law firm to represent me last year, after I was fired from my long term big corp for refusing the vax, religious exemption denied. It's been a year and a half since submitting to the EEOC and I haven't heard anything back. I know they are fighting it, but that's it. I was recommended to look into the Alliance for Defending Freedom as a means of representation, but even their own website says that "private employers" can fire you for refusing to take it. We know that's BS, but it doesn't give me warm fuzzies.
All of the cases we've heard about on the news circuit of people standing up and are successful fighting back are either: state/federal employees, health care, or military related. Private sector is a different ballgame it seems. And we know that EEOC and CDC are working hand-in-hand to force compliance and none of the federal protections are doing much for private sector people. By design. Just proves our system is corrupt top to bottom.
Your wife might have a good chance, just because there is far more legal precedent that's come out in the last year+, either class action or otherwise. I've given up hope in my case of ever getting restitution, but as I said, there is better precedent if you are in specific industries.
See what I don’t get is the religious exemptions being “denied” by companies. I have read through the EEOC website too many times now and it’s pretty clear that when you file a religious exemption you are notifying your employer that you are exempt from whatever the policy is they have and then they offer a way to accommodate you. I worked for three different (very liberal) universities back when this went down and one accommodated me by having me wear a face shield instead of mask (for the mask on campus rule) and just said fine for the jab, another accommodated me by switching the modality of my courses to online, the third didn’t know what they were doing and cancelled my courses and I was going to report them to the EEOC for retaliation but ran out of time.
Corpos have all of the "legal" protections where they know they can get away with these things, as long as they put up a fight. Title VII clearly states (as you mentioned) the person filing is declaring their exemption, not asking the corpos "permission" for allowing the exemption. I phrased my exemption that way, but in the end it didn't matter. My former employer also said that giving me the exemption would cause "undue hardship" - my lawfirm said that all corpos use this copout to get out of accepting a person's exemption. The hard part is proving the undue hardship.
Regardless, it's an uphill battle for anyone and it sucks. It just (further) proves to me that we have no rights or protections...only what the "elites" grant us. Not that any of us on a Q board need more confirmation, but it gets real, real quick when it's hitting you right in the face in real life :(
I hired a law firm to represent me last year, after I was fired from my long term big corp for refusing the vax, religious exemption denied. It's been a year and a half since submitting to the EEOC and I haven't heard anything back. I know they are fighting it, but that's it. I was recommended to look into the Alliance for Defending Freedom as a means of representation, but even their own website says that "private employers" can fire you for refusing to take it. We know that's BS, but it doesn't give me warm fuzzies.
All of the cases we've heard about on the news circuit of people standing up and are successful fighting back are either: state/federal employees, health care, or military related. Private sector is a different ballgame it seems. And we know that EEOC and CDC are working hand-in-hand to force compliance and none of the federal protections are doing much for private sector people. By design. Just proves our system is corrupt top to bottom.
Your wife might have a good chance, just because there is far more legal precedent that's come out in the last year+, either class action or otherwise. I've given up hope in my case of ever getting restitution, but as I said, there is better precedent if you are in specific industries.
See what I don’t get is the religious exemptions being “denied” by companies. I have read through the EEOC website too many times now and it’s pretty clear that when you file a religious exemption you are notifying your employer that you are exempt from whatever the policy is they have and then they offer a way to accommodate you. I worked for three different (very liberal) universities back when this went down and one accommodated me by having me wear a face shield instead of mask (for the mask on campus rule) and just said fine for the jab, another accommodated me by switching the modality of my courses to online, the third didn’t know what they were doing and cancelled my courses and I was going to report them to the EEOC for retaliation but ran out of time.
Corpos have all of the "legal" protections where they know they can get away with these things, as long as they put up a fight. Title VII clearly states (as you mentioned) the person filing is declaring their exemption, not asking the corpos "permission" for allowing the exemption. I phrased my exemption that way, but in the end it didn't matter. My former employer also said that giving me the exemption would cause "undue hardship" - my lawfirm said that all corpos use this copout to get out of accepting a person's exemption. The hard part is proving the undue hardship.
Regardless, it's an uphill battle for anyone and it sucks. It just (further) proves to me that we have no rights or protections...only what the "elites" grant us. Not that any of us on a Q board need more confirmation, but it gets real, real quick when it's hitting you right in the face in real life :(