It sounds like in this case, it wasn't so much that it was a religious exemption, but that was a procedural grey area.
If it were simply a matter of people who claimed religious exemptions to the vaccine being told "yeah, but no, either get it or lose your job", then there'd probably be a few hundred thousand lawsuits in progress.
UnitedHealthcare explicitly said that “the policy did not apply to full-time telecommuters,” according to the EEOC, but Ms. Stone was notified she had to be vaccinated.
A UnitedHealthcare spokesman told The Washington Times in an email that the company plans to “vigorously defend ourselves.”
“The EEOC’s contention that the employee in question was a remote worker with no in-person job responsibilities is inaccurate.
At the end of the day, and this is gonna sound harsh, most of the supposed "religious objections" that I heard from people were bogus or wildly inconsistent with the rest of their behaviors/attitudes. They were just people who didn't want to get the vaccine, and found a religious angle to justify their position in order to circumnavigate the requirement.
The most common one being "well, the vaccine research used fetal cell lines from abortions, that's my objection".
The issue with that? The same is true for this list of drugs:
acetaminophen,
albuterol,
aspirin,
ibuprofen,
Tylenol,
Pepto Bismol,
Tums,
Lipitor,
Senokot,
Ivermectin,
Motrin,
Maalox,
Ex-Lax,
Benadryl,
Sudafed,
Preparation H,
Claritin,
Prilosec,
Zoloft,
Z-pak
Meaning, if you've taken any of these with no objections, you can't claim "I object to taking a drug developed with fetal cell lines for religious reasons"
I have more respect for a person who simply says "No, I don't want to take this, it's my body" than a person who concocts some sob story about fetal cell lines when I know for a fact that 99.9% of the population has taken at least one of these aforementioned drugs with nary an objection.
Heck, Z-pak (made from research that used fetal cell lines) was a favorite among people who didn't want to take the vaccine. As was Ivermectin. Did this lady have a religious objection to Ivermectin? My gut says no.