{"id":1803573,"date":"2023-01-12T11:38:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803573"},"modified":"2023-01-12T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:39:08","slug":"stop-thinking-of-disney-as-a-mickey-mouse-organization-two-ex-espn-employees-sue-claim-they-were-fired-for-refusing-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-thinking-of-disney-as-a-mickey-mouse-organization-two-ex-espn-employees-sue-claim-they-were-fired-for-refusing-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop Thinking Of Disney As A Mickey Mouse Organization\u2019: Two Ex-ESPN Employees Sue, Claim They Were Fired For Refusing Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstop-thinking-of-disney-as-a-mickey-mouse-organization-two-ex-espn-employees-sue-claim-they-were-fired-for-refusing-vaccine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1803573&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Two former employees of ESPN are suing both the parent company The Walt Disney Company and the sports network. They claim that they were fired after refusing the COVID vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Williams, a veteran reporter, and Beth Faber, a producer, claimed a religious exemption, but were fired later in 2021. They filed suit in Connecticut on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>During the exchanges between Faber \u2014 a devout Catholic \u2014 and the Human Resources department at ESPN, the <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23570192\/williams-faber-lawsuit-against-espn.pdf\">Lawsuit<\/a> claims, the HR representative, Julie Walden, solicited the name of Faber\u2019s parish representative \u201cto discuss <em>their <\/em>opposition to vaccination, and what accommodation would be acceptable from a religious point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not even know how to respond to this other than to say that my sincere personal religious beliefs are my OWN,\u201d Faber was contacted. \u201cMy religious beliefs have grown, changed and evolved all of my life, as my relationship and connection with God continues to grow, change and strengthen. I do not expect to be cross examined or to have to bring in an \u2018expert\u2019 on my own personal religious beliefs for anyone to judge me or my belief in God\u2019s will for me. My sincerely held religious beliefs preclude me from taking the COVID-19 vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walden sent Faber an email about a week later. \u201cYou have not provided sufficient documentation to support your accommodation request, and your request is denied,\u201d According to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, for the fall 2021 season \u201cno, or next to no, college football teams excluded the unvaccinated,\u201d Citing ESPN reports, the author cites several ESPN reports that stated unvaccinated student athletes would be subject to surveillance testing, but no mention of a mandatory vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN required Faber to be vaccinated by September 2, 2021. She was fired on September 9, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was informed by her doctor in the summer of 2021 she needed to get a COVID or religious exemption prior to August 1, 2021. Her contract was extended to August 14th, 2021 on August 13th 2021. Williams applied to ESPN for an exemption form vaccinations on the grounds of disability, and was granted. \u201cundergoing in vitro fertilization and was concerned about the potential unknown effects the vaccination would have on the fetus,\u201d The lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<p>Williams told ESPN that she hadn&#8217;t received vaccines since she was 12, when she experienced a severe reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was informed that her request for the COVID vaccine was denied in October 2021. Williams had one week to complete her COVID vaccination or be terminated. She declined to be vaccinated. She was fired on October 19, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe September 9, 2021 termination of Beth Faber, exactly on, and of Allison Williams shortly after, the date of President Biden\u2019s announcement of a business mandate, are more than just symbolic, they are part of a very orchestrated and choreographed partnership,\u201d The lawsuit declares. \u201cDefendants erred in their zeal to be the shining star of the government\u2019s arsenal to implement vaccine mandates by going too far. \u2026 From every angle, whether the executives, the management staff, the highest paid pundit, it was a full court press, backed by the strength of the U.S. Defense Department on its Operation Warp Speed mission \u2013 a mission that engulfed, not only entwined the private company Disney, but engulfed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps we stop thinking of Disney as a Mickey Mouse operation and start recognizing it as a massive operation entwined and intertwined with the military and Defense Department, highly relevant to its treatment of the vaccine mandate and those who sought exemptions,\u201d The lawsuit charges.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: The Daily Wire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/introducing-dw-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plans announced<\/a> Entertainment content for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two ex-ESPN employees are suing the sports network as well as its parent company The Walt Disney Company, claiming they were fired because they refused the COVID vaccine. Veteran reporter Allison Williams and producer Beth Faber, both of whom claimed a religious exemption but were later fired in 2021, filed suit on Wednesday in Connecticut. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1803576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4893,6202,6344,5183,14581,6363,14048,12882,4594,7397,5410,7170,10961,3954,6195],"class_list":["post-1803573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-claim","tag-daily","tag-disney","tag-employees","tag-ex-espn","tag-fired","tag-mickey","tag-mouse","tag-organization","tag-refusing","tag-stop","tag-sue","tag-thinking","tag-vaccine","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}