Governor of Oregon Kate Brown
Kate Brown, an unvaccinated employee, caused an outbreak of COVID-19 at Oregon’s assisted living facility: Officials At least 90,000 students have had to be quarantined because of COVID-19 this school year. -19 MORE (D) is being sued by Oregon state police officers and firefighters for the state’s mandate to vaccinate.
He lawsuit in a Jefferson County court it seeks to prevent the state from enforcing Brown’s executive order forcing all employees of the executive branch to be vaccinated against coronavirus.
Plaintiffs argue that the order is “inapplicable because it conflicts with the Oregon statutes, would result in an unjustified denunciation of the plaintiffs’ common law, in conflict with the Oregon Constitution’s free speech guarantee, and in conflict with the guarantee of equal protection of the Constitution of the United States, free exercise and due process ”.
The complaint was first reported by CURRENCY in Oregon. A Brown spokesman told the newspaper that the governor “responds to a public health crisis.”
Vaccination requirements are “critical to protecting state workers, jobs and facilities, as well as members of the public who use state services,” the spokesman said.
Brown’s office declined to comment on pending litigation in The Hill.
The lawsuit was filed by the Fraternal Order of Police of Oregon and the Kinglsey Firefighters Association. Brown and the State of Oregon are named defendants.
Order of Brown, signed August 13th, demanded that executive branch workers prove that they have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus on 18 October.
Exceptions may be granted to persons with disabilities, qualified medical conditions, or actually held religious beliefs. Employees who do not comply with the directive will face “staff consequences up to and including separation from work.”
The complaint alleges that state law prohibits employers from requiring “vaccination” of workers as a working condition, unless federal or state law requires otherwise.
The lawsuit further alleges that the judicial forces put workers in an “unsustainable situation.”
“Forcing them to decide between their livelihoods and claiming their statutory and constitutional rights is unconscious and wrong,” the lawsuit states.
Sixty-four percent of the population of Oregon has received a dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with 58.4 percent fully inoculated.