Tue Sep 28, 2021 – 1:08 pm EDT
MILAN, Italy, (LifeSiteNews) – A civil court has sided with a nurse who was suspended without pay after she refused the COVID-19 vaccine.
The ruling was given by the Tribunal of Milan on September 16, following the appeal of the Italian nurse, who was not named. She had been suspended without pay in February because she refused to receive the jab in defiance of a vaccine mandate imposed by her employer. The tribunal called the suspension “illegitimate” and ordered the employer to pay the nurse her full wages with interest and arrears. The decision overturns previous court rulings for similar cases.
It is the first time in Italy that a court of law has ruled in favor of an employee in a case of a suspension or a dismissal for failure to vaccinate.
The decision comes from one of Italy’s most authoritative courts and is considered particularly significant because it overturns precedents and enshrines in law the illegitimacy of dismissing or suspending employees without pay for failing to vaccinate.
“This was one of the first cases of suspension of a healthcare worker,” stated Mauro Sandri, the nurse’s lawyer,
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