DENVER (KDVR) – Hundreds of City of Denver employees are resisting the imposed COVID-19 vaccination requirement, with the deadline to be fully vaccinated weeks away.
Mayor Michael Hancock announced last month all city employees as well as private-sector workers in high-risk settings, will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 30.
Employees had until the end of August to submit a form for a medical or religious exemption. Data from the city shows 408 employees turned in forms by the deadline. Their breakdown shows:
* Denver Police Department: 199
* Denver Fire Department: 111
* Denver Sheriff Department: 67
* Department of Safety: 13
* 911 Emergency Communications: 10
* N/A: 8
About 85% of exemptions requested are for religious reasons. The city attorney’s office is working through the forms. As of Wednesday, the office had granted 235 exemptions and denied eight.
Denver attorney Bryan Kuhn specializes in business and employment law. He says employers can legally ask for proof of certain medical conditions and religious beliefs.
“There is a duty for the employer to provide a safe workplace for all employees so they’re looking at it from that perspective,” said Kuhn.
Kuhn says from a legal perspective, providing proof of a medical condition is not new territory. He compared it to the process of providing proof of a disability. But asking for and providing proof of religious beliefs may be more difficult.
“Employers have to be cautious with that. I think it’s fair to ask in-depth, probing and tough questions. On the other hand, if you go too far with it, it could become illegally discriminating,” said Kuhn.
Kuhn expects to see more unlawful termination claims filed in the coming weeks and months as employers push for their staff to be fully vaccinated.
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We have seasonal flu every year—which kills thousands. The flu vaccine is not mandated—we are free to choose to get it or not.
Historically, we have encountered several dangerous epidemics where it made sense to take the available vaccine, such as polio. We are being told that the recovery rate for COVID is in the 98-99% range for the vast majority of people who do not have medical complications.
Nonetheless, the government is pushing COVID vaccination down our throats. They are using it to limit what we can and cannot do as well as where we can and cannot go. They employ every method in the book to justify their actions regarding the vaccine, mandates, lockdowns, and point to the ever-evolving mutations that crop us seemingly on cue.
There is intended confusion over what is fact and what is fiction which they try to tamp down with threats and fear. If this damn thing has the recovery success rate that they claim, then the obvious conclusion is that the heavy-handedness is all about control. And control why??? Because somebody stands to make some serious money from Big Pharma for mass vaccination. There is no other logical explanation.
I’d LOVE TO SE everyone working, just QUIT, over these mandates. THEN SEE HOW THE tyrants in charge react.
Some pastors I know are handing out letters of religious exemption to members of their congregation like candy. We’ll see if they do any good.
Since the left HATES everything religious (other than islam), i honestly can’t see those “religious exemptions” being worth the paper they’re printed on.