{"id":134151,"date":"2025-09-30T14:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/30\/state-appellate-court-reinstates-religious-discrimination-suit-against-hospitals-vaccination-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:27:17","slug":"state-appellate-court-reinstates-religious-discrimination-suit-against-hospitals-vaccination-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/30\/state-appellate-court-reinstates-religious-discrimination-suit-against-hospitals-vaccination-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"State Appellate Court Reinstates Religious Discrimination Suit Against Hospital’s Vaccination Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“In Massachusetts, an employer must accommodate an employee’s genuine religious beliefs if it can do so without creating an undue hardship. We conclude that the plaintiff’s stated beliefs that her body is a temple of God and that she prayed to God and received a message not to receive the COVID-19 vaccination were beliefs that a trier of fact could determine were religious in nature,” said Justice Joseph M. Ditkoff, who authored the opinion.<\/p>\n

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“In Massachusetts, an employer must accommodate an employee’s genuine religious beliefs if it can do so without creating an undue hardship. We conclude that the plaintiff’s stated beliefs that her body is a temple of God and that she prayed to God and received a message not to receive the COVID-19 vaccination were beliefs that a trier of fact could determine were religious in nature,” said Justice Joseph M. Ditkoff, who authored the opinion.<\/p>\n

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“In Massachusetts, an employer must accommodate an employee’s genuine religious beliefs if it can do so without creating an undue hardship. We conclude that the plaintiff’s stated beliefs that her body is a temple of God and that she prayed to God and received a message not to receive the COVID-19 vaccination were beliefs that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/legal-news-nFN8Ri.jpg?fit=621%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}