MAINEGENERAL BEGS FIRED NURSES TO COME BACK TO WORK

 

MaineGeneral sent out a text this week begging nurses the hospital fired AND prevented from receiving unemployment benefits to simply forget the abuse they suffered and come back to work. The hens have come home to roost in Maine, which is facing one of the most severe nursing shortages in the country, thanks to Gov. Janet Mills’ unlawful shot mandates and employers refusing to obey federal law. Liberty Counsel is defending the brave health care heroes who lost their careers.  We’re taking on both the tyrannical governor who issued unlawful decrees as well as the employers who chose to violate the law. Yesterday, Liberty Counsel filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the High Court to decide once and for all — can governors and employers violate federal law and discriminate against religion? Read on. — Mat We need YOUR help to defend the rights of anyone who doesn’t want to be forced to take an experimental, abortion-linked shot. Give now and a generous Challenge Grant will DOUBLE THE IMPACT of every donation made today.

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On Monday, MaineGeneral, the state’s largest health care employer, sent a mass text to the employees it unlawfully fired, begging them to return. 

There was no apology. Instead, the text said the shot mandate was finally dropped (thanks to our 3-0 win at the Court of Appeals).

“I was livid,” says Terry Poland, a 33-year nursing veteran whose religious accommodation request was unlawfully denied. 

“Like, how dare you force me out of a career that I’ve dedicated my whole life to, taken away my livelihood, my ability to earn a good income, and now you think I’m gonna come grovel back to you? I ... hardly think so. 

And that’s the attitude of most everybody that I’ve been in contact with.”

“I knew enough not to take it,” Terry said. 

“I’ve been a nurse long enough to know I need to question what new products are. 

I’m not going to be the first one to jump on board of an experiment.”
 

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Terry requested a religious exemption from MaineGeneral’s shot mandate. 

Not only was she reluctant to be a guinea pig for the unapproved COVID shot, but she also refused to put anything in her body that was developed using aborted fetal cells. 

Federal law requires employers to accommodate religious exemptions. 

However, MaineGeneral refused to obey federal law. 

Terry and many others were fired for “misconduct” to deny them unemployment benefits.

Maine already had a major nurse shortage before COVID. 

Gov. Mills’ mandate turned a problem into a crisis. 

But as Maine hospitals and skilled nursing facilities found themselves in a staffing emergency, risking patient safety and lives, Mills refused to revoke her unconstitutional mandate.

Instead, Gov. Mills’ Department of Labor refused to pay unemployment benefits to the medical professionals who would not relinquish their religious freedom rights.

Terry appealed to the Maine Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Maine Human Rights Commission, asserting her right to religious accommodation. 

Both state agencies rejected her case because MaineGeneral claimed Terry’s refusal to take the jab was “misconduct.”

With no income amid Mills’ shutdown orders and skyrocketing inflation, Terry drained her savings to survive while working part-time jobs.

Terry had worked at MaineGeneral Rehabilitation and Long Term Care. The shot mandate cost that facility nearly one-third of its staff.

Desperate to fill the gap that the governor and health care facilities had created, the hospital system imported foreigners with green cards rather than grant religious exemptions for its skilled and dedicated employees.
 

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But even after scrambling to fill the jobs vacated by the hospital’s unlawful behavior and Gov. Mills’ equally unlawful mandate, the State of Maine STILL doesn’t have enough nurses. So, hospitals like those in MaineGeneral are begging the medical professionals they abused to — please — return.

Despite Gov. Mills’ statewide order, these hospitals had a choice. They could have and should have disregarded Mills’ order for what it was — a gross overreach and abuse of power — and one that also clearly violated federal law.

Employers, including hospitals, are bound by the federal Title VII law. If a governor’s order conflicts with Title VII, the employer MUST follow federal law. 

But MaineGeneral hospitals CHOSE to violate federal law by refusing religious accommodations to ALL health care workers who requested them.

Gov. Mills and these hospitals have created a horrifying health care crisis in the Lobster State. Now these abusers of the law must pay — and Liberty Counsel is on the case to ensure justice is done.

Amazingly, COVID jabs continue to be mandated around the country. We have hundreds of pending requests for legal help, and more calls for help come in every day.

Yesterday, Liberty Counsel filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, requesting review of Gov. Mill’s egregious and unlawful mandates.

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Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
 

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Sources:

“Appeals Court Gives Life to Maine Health Care Workers Case.” Liberty Counsel, May 25, 2023. Lc.org/newsroom/details/052523-appeals-court-gives-life-to-maine-health-care-workers-case.

Robinson, Steve. “Maine Hospital That Fired Unvaccinated Nurses over Mills’ Mandate Is Begging Them to Return Two Years Later.” The Maine Wire, August 9, 2023. Themainewire.com/2023/08/maine-hospital-that-fired-unvaccinated-nurses-over-mills-mandate-is-begging-them-to-return-two-years-later/.

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