November 05, 2024
Ascension Health Alliance will provide back pay for employees who were denied religious exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccine policy and suspended without pay, under a revamped settlement approved by a Michigan federal judge.
August 02, 2024
Women who opted out of or objected to a recently vacated $10.5 million deal between Ascension Health Alliance and workers who allege the company retaliated or fired them for seeking COVID-19 vaccine exemptions cannot now intervene in the renewed bid for settlement approval, a Michigan federal judge has ruled, finding their request untimely.
October 05, 2023
Ascension Health Alliance will provide back pay for hospital staff who were suspended or fired after objecting to a COVID-19 vaccination requirement on religious grounds under a deal approved Thursday by a Michigan federal judge.
June 12, 2023
Ascension Health Alliance urged a Michigan federal judge to deny an ex-doctor's attempt to thwart a national class action settlement by claiming he was the first to file a separate suit, calling the attempt to intervene "unwarranted mudslinging" with unsubstantiated accusations that the settlement over Ascension's COVID-19 vaccine policy was a reverse auction.
June 05, 2023
A doctor suing over health care giant Ascension Health Alliance's COVID-19 vaccine policy says a national class settlement approved in April by a Michigan judge must be set aside because he filed his nationwide claims first.
April 26, 2023
A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday granted preliminary approval of a settlement to compensate a class of health care professionals who alleged they were denied a religious exemption and placed on unpaid leave after they refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
July 15, 2022
Over the past week, multiple new lawsuits were filed by workers in both the private and public sectors over issues tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, putting on display how hot-button topics like vaccine mandates and sick leave are regularly finding their way into court. Here, Law360 rounds up four of the latest pandemic-related employment suits.