Ruling in lawsuit upholds mask-wearing in workplace
CREATAS CREATAS
Published: 12/16/2020 7:26:50 PM
SPRINGFIELD — On Wednesday, local health care workers at Baystate Medical Center became the first in the region to receive a coronavirus vaccine.
The hospital is not mandating that its employees receive the vaccine, for which the federal government only recently granted emergency approval. However, as the pandemic continues to rage across the country, a 2016 lawsuit brought against Baystate points to the ability employers have to require employees to either get vaccinated or wear a mask if they have a religious or health-related exemption for not getting vaccinated. A judge dismissed the lawsuit this summer.