Texas Hospital Employees Appeal Dismissal Of Firing Case For Refusing Vaccine

Mealey's (June 15, 2021, 2:09 PM EDT) -- HOUSTON — More than 100 employees of a Texas hospital who face being fired for refusing to get one of the available COVID-19 vaccines filed a notice on June 14 of their appeal to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals after a Texas federal judge dismissed their wrongful discharge case two days earlier, finding that employees in Texas are protected from termination only where they refuse to carry out a criminal act....