Court Orders Store to Pay $110,000 to Employee Fired for Refusing COVID Shots
In 2021, an Arkansas-based furniture retailer Hank’s Fine Furniture, Inc. with 18 branch stores in four states, violated U.S. federal law by denying a religious exemption to Florida assistant store manager Kaitlyn M. O’Neal for her religious beliefs opposed to getting COVID-19 shots. O’Neal was terminated from her position because she refused to comply with the company’s COVID […]
California’s Autism Epidemic Worse Than Ever
On June 29, 2015, then-governor of California Jerry Brown signed into law California Senate Bill 277. The law, which took effect on July 1, 2016, removed the personal belief/religious exemption to vaccination for children attending public and private schools and daycare centers. SB 277 was followed by SB 276 and its companion bill SB 714 […]
Most American Parents Rejecting COVID Vaccine for Young Children
Despite the recommendation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that young children between the ages of six months and four years get vaccinated for COVID-19, only four to five percent of children in this age group have received the controversial mRNA COVID vaccines distributed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna for administration to […]
Many American Workers Fired for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Cannot Get Unemployment Benefits
Many workers in the United States have been fired from their jobs in recent months for not complying with employer COVID-19 vaccine requirements.1 2 3 Every state has its own eligibility guidelines for unemployment benefits. The benefits are generally available to those people who are unemployed due to circumstances beyond their control, such as a […]
Federal COVID Vaccine Mandates Blocked by Several U.S. Courts
During the past two weeks, more courts across the United States have blocked enforcement of the current Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates. On Nov. 30, 2021, in a 34-page ruling, a U.S. District Court judge in Monroe, Louisiana issued a temporary injunction pending resolution of the legal challenge by 14 state attorney generals to the […]
