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| A Milltown resident receives a flu shot at the Milltown Senior Center at the start of flu season in 2011. (File photo) |
by Mark Mueller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, 6 December 2015
A New Jersey social service agency has followed through with its threat to fire three office workers over their refusal to get a flu shot or, as an alternative, wear a surgical mask while in the company's Burlington Township headquarters, an attorney for the women said.
Alanda Watson, Megan Duncan and Denise Mercurius, who worked in the accounting and billing departments at Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey, were suspended without pay last month for failing to follow the flu-prevention protocol, which went into effect in June.
The company began enforcing the mandate at the onset of flu season in October.
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