6 BART employees who refused COVID-19 vaccine to receive more than $1M each | 24 Oct 2024 | Six former BART employees are each due a $1 million payout after accusing the agency of wrongly firing them because of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. 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. In a class-action lawsuit filed in October 2022, employees said BART granted the vaccine exemption but denied accommodations... Employees said when they refused to receive the vaccine, they were fired.