Judge Won't Block LANL Vax Mandate Yet, Compels Refusers to Arbitration With Lab

摘要

Declining to block the lab’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, a judge ruled Monday that Los Alamos National LaboratoryEmployees who will not take a required COVID-19 vaccine and are unsatisfied with receiving unpaid leave as theirreligious exemption from the shot must hash things out with the lab in arbitration.Pending the outcomes of other lawsuits about the vaccine mandate, that will keep Los Alamos’ mandate on the books foras long it takes the lab and the eight employees who sued it in federal court in late October to finish arbitration.