On Wednesday, a jury in the U.S District Court for the Northern District of California sided with the employees who refused the vaccine for religious reasons. BART has been ordered to pay the group more than $7.8 million, with the individual employees receiving between nearly $1.2 million and $1.5 million each.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - BART now has to pay $7.8 million to six former employees after a jury found the company discriminated against them after they asked for a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine.

A federal jury has ruled in favor of six fired Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who sued the agency for losing their jobs over a COVID vaccine mandate.

Six former employees for the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency who lost their jobs when they did not get Covid vaccines for religious reasons have been awarded more than $1 million each, according to court documents related to a lawsuit the California workers filed.

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