{"id":193267,"date":"2025-09-02T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193267\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:00:14","slug":"cta-news-jury-sides-with-ex-chicago-transit-authority-worker-kevin-mccormick-who-was-fired-after-refusing-to-get-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193267\/","title":{"rendered":"CTA news: Jury sides with ex-Chicago Transit Authority worker Kevin McCormick who was fired after refusing to get COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, September 2, 2025 12:34AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Jury sides with ex-CTA worker fired after refusing to get COVID shot\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A jury has awarded a former CTA employee $425,000 in damages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A jury has awarded a former CTA employee $425,000 in damages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kevin McCormick sued after he claimed he has been discriminated against when he was fired after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He claimed he did so due to his sincerely held religious beliefs and that he was denied a religious exemption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The jury agreed with that, and on Friday awarded McCormick compensatory damages in the amount of $425,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">ABC7 reached out the CTA for a response but have not heard back yet.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Tuesday, September 2, 2025 12:34AM A jury has awarded a former CTA employee $425,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[107877,960,79599,4140,107875,107876,42280,5386,1818,107874],"class_list":{"0":"post-193267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-107877","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-covid-vaccine","11":"tag-covid-19","12":"tag-cta-chicago","13":"tag-cta-lawsuit","14":"tag-cta-news","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-illinois","17":"tag-kevin-mccormick"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115132945279084510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}