FALLON COMMUNITY HEALTH PLAN, INC. v. ACTING DIRECTOR OF DEPARTMENT OF UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE

SJC-13440.

493 Mass. 591 (2024)

FALLON COMMUNITY HEALTH PLAN, INC. v. ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

March 4, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francesco A. DeLuca ( Alicia Maziarz also present) for the plaintiff.

Konstantin Tretyakov , Assistant Attorney General, for Acting Director of the Department of Unemployment Assistance.

Margaret E. Monsell, Jamie A. Sabino, & Ruth A. Bourquin, for Massachusetts Law Reform Institute & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.


In October 2021, Fallon Community Health Plan, Inc. (Fallon), adopted a policy requiring its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Shanika Jefferson, a home health aide employed by Fallon, sought a religious exemption from the vaccination requirement, but her request was denied, and her...

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