A federal jury has sided with fired Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who sued the agency claiming they lost their jobs over a COVID vaccine mandate. There are six of them total in the lawsuit and each will receive more than $1 million.

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.

A federal jury will decide if BART has to pay up to six former employees who claimed religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate but say they were not accommodated and subsequently lost their jobs.

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.

Six San Francisco public transport employees who were fired for refusing to get COVID-19 vaccines have been awarded more than $1 million each. The Bay Area Rapid Transit [BART] employees filed a discrimination lawsuit saying they were wrongly terminated for refusing the vaccine on “sincerely held religious beliefs.