I took a short break last week and was only able to get out one article, but this is one that I cannot let slip through the cracks. It may be a few days old but I’m guessing that a lot of you missed it due to the holiday so here we go.
The Trump administration wants American workers stripped of their ability to claim religiously based exemptions to vaccine mandates forced upon them by their employers. Yes, you read that right.
Trump’s U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief last week before the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that employees should be able to claim medical exemptions but not religious ones. Accommodating a person’s religious exemption from a vaccine mandate is just too big of a “hardship” on corporate employers, the adminstration argued, even as it acknowledged that medical exemptions were perfectly OK and reasonable for employers to accommodate.
This is just the latest example of Trump’s non-stop kowtowing to the demands of corporate America, to the detriment of us working s…
