Additionally, Zachary Rackovan asserts that the school lacked moral support for his orthodox Christian beliefs.
A former Penn State University staff filed a spiritual discrimination lawsuit on Friday, alleging the school fired him because he had refused COVID-19 testing three days before the requirement was removed.
When Zachary Rackovan, an evangelical Christian, was fired from his position as a university’s video expert in 2022, the Centre Daily Times information.
According to StateCollege .com, Rackovan claims in his lawsuit that he “was granted an exemption from the university’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement in the fall of 2021 but was still required to receive weekly testing.”
Rackovan requested an exemption from the testing requirement from the school, but the lawsuit claimed he was denied.
According to the situation, he told the school,” If I were to submit myself to the regular checking, I would not just be disappointed in myself, I had quite literally been compromising my relationship with God and my eternal salvation.”
According to the Center Daily Times, the University of Pennsylvania fired him on Friday, March 18, 2022, and therefore revoked its assessment sanction the following year.
Rackovan claimed in an email to the school that regular testing for remote workers was unneeded and contrary to his spiritual beliefs after submitting his request for spiritual accommodations in October 2021. His lawyer claimed that Rackovan’s demand for reconsideration was turned down by Penn State.
According to his complaint, he was disciplined in March 2022 because he failed to meet the screening requirements and was subject to termination. Rackovan claimed that he was fired two weeks later.
Penn State announced it would stop COVID-19 tests for kids, faculty, and team the following business day following Rackovan’s fire. The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission determined that Rackovan had possible cause to be the subject of discrimination at Penn State.
When contacted about the lawsuit on Tuesday, college spokesman Wyatt DuBois claimed that the company does not make any comments on pending litigation.
According to StateCollege .com, Rackovan filed the lawsuit after the school “refused an administrative mediation process” and he “received a right-to-sue notice from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.”
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