OK Attorney General: Ascension violated temporary restraining order

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Posted at 6:28 AM, Nov 16, 2021

and past updated 2021-11-16 07:32:02-05

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor says Ascension has violated the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) granted precocious by the Tulsa County District Court.

Issued connected Friday, Nov. 12, a justice approved the TRO that stated Ascension could not suspend oregon occurrence its employees who are not getting the COVID-19 vaccine owed to spiritual exemption.

AG O'Connor says helium learned that Ascension is inactive suspending its employees contempt the TRO issued and wrote a cease and desist missive to the healthcare company.

Some of the missive reads:

"The TRO remains successful effect until dissolved oregon modified by the due court. Under the TRO entered by the Court, Ascension is required to rescind each specified suspensions, terminations, oregon different adverse actions that occurred anterior to November 12, 2021, and indispensable let each Oklahoma employees an further 30 (30) days to taxable requests for spiritual accommodations.

It appears that Ascension is determined to trample connected the sincerely held spiritual beliefs of the healthcare heroes it employs contempt the Court’s wide mandate,” noted Attorney General O’Connor. “Ascension employees who are suspended successful usurpation of the Court’s bid simply privation to beryllium capable to proceed moving with the aforesaid accommodations arsenic those who person received aesculapian exemptions.”

At this time, Ascension employees are not required to record a favoritism ailment with the Oklahoma Attorney General to person the extortion of the Court TRO.

The cease and desist missive tin beryllium accessed here.

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