{"id":148824,"date":"2025-08-18T14:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148824"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:12:21","slug":"trump-team-vows-relief-for-americans-fired-over-covid-vax-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/trump-team-vows-relief-for-americans-fired-over-covid-vax-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump team vows relief for Americans fired over Covid vax mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"

by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span>, August 18, 2025 <\/em>Real World News<\/span><\/a>
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under the Trump Administration has said it is seeking relief for Americans who filed religious exemptions yet still lost their jobs for refusing the mandated Covid shots.<\/p>\n

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Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the Biden-Harris regime sat on its hands as it was flooded with thousands of discrimination charges related to Covid vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n

Lucas said what the Biden-Harris team did was one of the \u201cgreatest civil rights violations\u201d of the past few decades, adding that religious liberty is foundational, not a \u201csecond class right.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump EEOC launched new lawsuits against the Mayo Clinic in July and Silver Cross in August for failing to provide religious accommodations to their Covid injection policies. Two Las Vegas casinos likewise agreed in July to settle religious discrimination charges over vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n

One health care system with clinics in Illinois and Wisconsin, Mercyhealth, agreed to a $1 million settlement on Wednesday, which will provide financial compensation to employees wrongfully terminated for refusing to comply with its vaccine mandate for religious reasons. The settlement includes an offer to reinstate fired employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a worker has been harmed and shoved out of their job, you can give them money to try to help compensate, but the chance to go back into their well-paying job at a solid hospital system \u2014 that can really change the course of someone\u2019s life,\u201d Lucas said.<\/p>\n

In 2022, the EEOC received almost 13,000 religious accommodation requests, Lucas said, noting the requests made up 20% of the agency\u2019s discrimination charges.<\/p>\n

Even this number is \u201conly a fraction\u201d of the thousands of other people pushed out of jobs or refused accommodations during the mandates, Lucas said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe agency was doing some work, but it was always doing it quietly,\u201d Lucas said. \u201cIt was shoving it under the rug \u2026 It didn\u2019t want to push it because it wasn\u2019t the right narrative, apparently, for the Biden Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lucas noted the agency did previously recover $55 million for some individuals who filed religious or disability accommodations related to vaccine mandates between the Biden Administration and the Trump Administration, but almost \u201cnone of it was public.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was all confidential settlements that were really hushed up,\u201d Lucas said. \u201cWe\u2019re not doing that anymore. When we secure an important religious liberty victory, we\u2019re going to talk about it wherever we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court blocked enforcement of Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate for large private businesses in January 2022, finding the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lacked authority to impose the rule.<\/p>\n

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