Former Houston Methodist employees will demand their jobs back after Abbott's vaccine mandate ban

[TexasTowelie]

More than 150 former Houston Methodist employees who parted ways with the hospital in June over a vaccine mandate policy will demand to be rehired after Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday banning any entity in the state from implementing such mandates, according to a lawyer representing the former employees.

Attorney Jared Woodfill, who currently represents almost 200 healthcare workers in multiple lawsuits against Methodist, said executive order GA-40 makes the hospital’s policy illegal.

“Governor Abbott says very clearly, ‘whereas countless Texans fear losing their livelihoods because they object to receiving a COVID-19 vaccination for reasons of personal conscience,'” he said. “That applies to every plaintiff that I represent, and every plaintiff that Methodist hospital thought it was appropriate to fire.”

Woodfill said he planned to send a formal request to the hospital on Tuesday in an attempt to reinstate the former employees.

Read more: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2021/10/12/410745/former-houston-methodist-employees-will-demand-their-jobs-back-after-abbotts-vaccine-mandate-ban/

[msongs]

1. yeah but was it legal at the time nt

[thucythucy]

2. Isn't Texas a "right to work state?"

So the company can simply say, "Management doesn't like your attitude. You're fired because you're fired because you're fired."

This is, after all, what MAGAts want: deregulation of corporations. Welcome to your Ayn Rand paradise!

[Paladin]

3. Fuck you where you BREATHE, Greg Abbott. (nt)