BART, COVID

6 BART employees who refused COVID-19 vaccine to receive more than $1M each
On Wednesday, a jury in the U.S District Court for the Northern District of California sided with the employees who refused the vaccine for religious reasons. BART has been ordered to pay the group more than $7.8 million, with the individual employees receiving between nearly $1.2 million and $1.5 million each.
BART to pay $7.8 million to six former employees denied religious exemption for COVID vaccine
SAN JOSE, Calif. - BART now has to pay $7.8 million to six former employees after a jury found the company discriminated against them after they asked for a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine.
6 ex-BART workers get over $1 million each after jury said they were denied COVID vaccine exemptions
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District must pay $7.8 million to six former employees after a jury found the agency discriminated against the workers who sought religious exemptions to the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
BART workers fired due to COVID vaccine mandate to get over $1M each, federal jury decides
A federal jury has sided with six fired BART workers who sued the agency claiming religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate were not accommodated, and each will receive more than $1 million.
Fired BART employees win lawsuit over vaccine mandate
A federal jury has ruled in favor of six fired Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who sued the agency for losing their jobs over a COVID vaccine mandate.
Transit workers fired for refusing COVID vaccines on religious grounds awarded $1.3M each
Six San Francisco public transport employees who were fired for refusing to get COVID-19 vaccines have been awarded more than $1 million each. The Bay Area Rapid Transit [BART] employees filed a discrimination lawsuit saying they were wrongly terminated for refusing the vaccine on “sincerely held religious beliefs.
San Francisco's BART Ordered to Pay $7.8M to Former Workers Over Denied Religious Exemptions for COVID Vaccine
San Francisco's BART must pay $7.8 million to six ex-employees fired after seeking religious exemptions to its Covid-19 vaccine mandate.
Public transit workers fired due to COVID vaccine mandate to get over $1M each, federal jury decides
A federal jury has sided with fired Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who sued the agency claiming they lost their jobs over a COVID vaccine mandate. There are six of them total in the lawsuit and each will receive more than $1 million.
Federal jury deliberates over BART workers fired due to COVID vaccine mandate
A federal jury will decide if BART has to pay up to six former employees who claimed religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate but say they were not accommodated and subsequently lost their jobs.
BART workers fired due to COVID vaccine mandate to get over $1M each
A federal jury has sided with six fired BART workers who sued the agency claiming religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate were not accommodated, and each will receive more than $1 million.
Transit workers who lost jobs when they didn't get Covid vaccines are awarded $1M
Six former employees for the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency who lost their jobs when they did not get Covid vaccines for religious reasons have been awarded more than $1 million each, according to court documents related to a lawsuit the California workers filed.
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