The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC) filed a lawsuit this week claiming that the Mission hospital in North Carolina forced workers with religious objections to get flu shots and fired those who refused. According to Reuters: “The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina against Mission Hospital Inc in Asheville on behalf of a Christian intake clinician and a Muslim psychiatric technician who were terminated and a pre-school teacher who belonged to a Christian sect and was forced to resign because she would not be vaccinated.” The EEOC’s lawsuit is seeking back pay, compensatory and punitive damages and reinstatement for the fired employees Truth Kings reports: It seems as though this hospital has historically fired nurses and staff workers for not complying with their mandatory flu shot policy. Here is an article dating all the way back to 2010. Three workers at Mission Hospital in Buncombe County were fired after refusing to get a mandatory flu shot, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported recently. Like a growing number of hospitals, Mission adopted a policy that required flu vaccinations for medical staff and employees unless they had a medical or religious exemption. The Asheville [...]