The federal vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees created riffs in the workplace before it could even be implemented. On Thursday, Jan. 13 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the mandate for businesses but kept the healthcare mandate in place.
While some Michigan business owners were relieved to not enforce the rule, other employers had already set the policy in motion.
Under the proposed federal mandate, the insurance company was considered a federal contractor and therefore did not offer a testing option. The company states 1,900 unvaccinated employees received a religious exemption or chose to get the vaccine after being informed of the policy in October.
A group of more than 170 terminated insurance workers who were denied a religious exemption, like Kowalczyk, have come together to take legal action against the company.
‘We’re not just numbers,’ say Michiganders fired over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate
