The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit on July 31 in the U.S. District Court of the District of Minnesota.

The Mayo Clinic is facing a lawsuit from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The suit claims the hospital refused to make a religious exception to its mandatory COVID-19 staff vaccination policy.

Mayo Clinic discriminated against a security guard by effectively forcing him to get a COVID-19 shot despite his religious beliefs, federal employment regulators claim. Citing his Pentecostal faith, Cody Schultz asked Mayo in 2021 to exempt him from its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy,