The lawsuit filed Thursday claims that the Rochester-based health care system refused to grant a security guard’s request for a reasonable religious accommodation to its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.

Years after Mayo Clinic’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees made headlines, another former staffer has filed a suit claiming the hospital violated his religious beliefs. According to a new federal lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),

Mayo Clinic is facing a lawsuit in U.S. District Court over allegedly threatening to fire a security guard for not wanting to get the COVID-19 vaccine due to his religious beliefs.