Nearly two years after President Biden accused the Supreme Court of endangering lives by blocking his COVID-19 vaccine mandate on large employers, his own administration has joined a litigation barrage against employers mandating the shot.
The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission sued United Healthcare Services and Hank's Furniture last month for allegedly refusing to honor requests for religious accommodations from their COVID mandates, a rare step for the agency and its first litigation on the subject, according to Bloomberg Law.
The lawsuits are silent on the role that Biden's September 2021 executive order, which required vaccinations for large employers, may have played in the alleged violations. An agency spokesperson, citing ongoing litigation, declined to comment on whether EEOC was cleaning up a mess the president made.
The timing is embarrassing for the Defense Department, which committed the same alleged violations against thousands of service members who sought religious accommodations from DOD's mandate.
