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In reply to the discussion: Eight Hospital Employees Fired For Refusing Flu Vaccines [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Around 1,300 employees may have not complied, but that doesn't tell the whole story. There was apparently a process whereby an employee could pursue an exception to the policy. So it's entirely possible that 1292 of them received exceptions while 8 did not. So long as the hospital's policy wasn't discriminatory any discrimination case would have an uphil battle. In civil rights cases it is not enough to show the possibility of discrimination. One must demonstrate reasonable probability of discrimination. In order to do that you have to meet the prima facia requirements (which by themselves aren't easy) and that's just to procede with the case without it being dropped.
It's also entirely possible that the hospital could have cared less whether the employees filed for and obtained unemployment compensation. If they had a compelling reason to reduce the number of influenza deaths of patients, any monetary consideration of unemployment may have been greatly outweighed by the economic ramifications of not aggressively enforcing their policy.