1st Circuit Revives Religious Discrimination Claims Over COVID-19 Vaccine Firing

( January 27, 2025, 10:41 AM EST) -- BOSTON — A woman who was terminated from her job at a global biopharmaceuticals company for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine stating that it went against her “personal, private and sincerely held religious beliefs” may still have grounds to sue her employer for religious discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the corresponding Massachusetts state law after a panel of the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals partially reversed the lower court’s dismissal of her claims....