Employment

Updates on Legal Challenges to Health Care Employers’ Voluntary COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

On May 28, 2021, a group of Houston Methodist Hospital employees filed a lawsuit challenging the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees.  The lawsuit, filed by 117 employees, was the first to challenge a health care employer’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.  The employees’ grievances included that the vaccine is unsafe and that employers may not treat...