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A childrens hospital in Atlanta owes a former employee thousands of dollars after federal officials said he was fired for not getting a flu shot. The Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta employee, who is Jewish, wanted an exemption from the hospitals mandatory flu vaccine policy because of his religious beliefs in 2019, a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says. After he was hired as a maintenance assistant in May 2016, the employee converted to Judaism months later, the complaint says. Around the time of his conversion, his hospital superv