Maine can move ahead and enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate against designated healthcare employees after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant an injunction to a group of affected workers on Friday, when the statute was supposed to take effect. The employees had challenged the law because it doesn’t allow a religious exemption.
4 Takeaways for Maine Employers
First, the employees were seeking an injunction, i.e., an early ruling in a case that hasn’t been fully litigated. Just because it was denied doesn’t mean they might not win the case in the end. In other words, the majority decision didn’t amount to an endorsement of Maine’s vaccine rule on the legal merits.
