(The Center Square) – The Silent Majority Foundation has filed a lawsuit against state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and his office on behalf of 10 former AGO employees who lost their jobs over the AGO’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for retaining employment.
The lawsuit argues that the constitutional rights and religious freedoms of those former state employees were violated.
“They had a return-to-work element, and that included a vaccination policy, and it required an individual receive the vaccine series or seek accommodations through religious or medical exemption requests,” SMF founder and attorney Pete Serrano told The Center Square in a phone interview.
“These plaintiffs sought religious exemptions, and all were denied,” he continued. “The fact is the accommodations weren’t offered. Some of these folks didn’t even have their interactive process to plead their case.”
The lawsuit alleges nine violations of law including “wrongful termination against public policy” and “deprivation of religious freedom.”