Michigan Jury Awards $133,000 To Employee Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccination

( January 17, 2025, 11:53 AM EST) -- DETROIT — A Michigan federal jury on Jan. 16 awarded $133,000 to a former employee of a resort after determining that his refusal to take the COVID-19 vaccine was based on a sincerely held religious belief and that the resort failed to prove that accommodating the employee’s religious beliefs would have caused it to suffer an undue hardship....