Mercyhealth reaches $1 million settlement with feds over COVID-19 vaccine policy
Rockford-based Mercyhealth has agreed to pay more than $1 million to employees who had refused to comply with its COVID-19 vaccine policy.
153 Houston Hospital Employees Resign Or Fired Over Refusal To Get COVID-19 Vaccine
DALLAS (AP) — More than 150 employees at a Houston hospital system who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine have been fired or resigned after a judge dismissed an employee lawsuit over the vaccine requirement. A spokesperson for Houston Methodist hospital system said 153 employees either resigned in the two-week suspension period or were terminated […]
Health System Warns Exemptions to COVID Vaccines May Expire With New Options
The Froedtert Health network in Wisconsin has sent a clear message to employees claiming religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccination: with an alternative to mRNA vaccines now available, get vaccinated or resign. In an email to a Froedtert staff member obtained by WTMJ-TV, the health network’s COVID-19 Vaccine Religious Exemption Review Committee wrote, “Your original exemption […]
New research sheds fresh light on the ‘presenteeism’
Employees who are unwell only engage in presenteeism when they have not met their daily work goals, according to new research from Trinity College Dublin. The study, published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology recently, also found that working on a day when you feel ill drains mental energy which cannot be recovered the […]