HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A group of 117 employees have joined a lawsuit against Houston Methodist for requiring the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment.The medical giant has given workers a deadline of receiving the vaccine by June 7 or face losing their jobs.
“There’s so many ‘What ifs?’ out there,” a nurse, who wished to remain anonymous, said to ABC13 last month. “June 7 is the deadline. It’s ‘take the vaccine’ or ‘pack up your bags.'”
Attorney Jared Woodfill filed the lawsuit claiming that Methodist is “illegally requiring its employees to be injected with an experimental vaccine as a condition of employment.”
“We’re not saying we’ll never get it, we just want more time,” said the nurse. “We want more research. We want it FDA approved, thoroughly, before we actually put it in our body.”
“For the first time in the history of the United States, an employer is forcing an employee to participate in an experimental vaccine trial as a condition for continued employment,” the lawsuit states.
Woodfill claims the hospital is turning staffers into “human guinea pigs.”
Read full story here: Source: 117 medical workers sue Houston Methodist over job requirement to receive COVID-19 vaccine – ABC13 Houston