147. Raytheon SUED After Employees Fired Over Vax | Mike Heyser & Lisa Leake | Own Your Freedom

<p> They approved the religious exemption — then fired them anyway.</p><p><strong>Mike Heyser</strong>, retired Air Force veteran who ran Raytheon's Warfighter School, and<strong>Lisa Leake</strong>, a 14-year IT systems analyst on classified programs, both had religious exemptions approved under the COVID vaccine mandate. Both say the accommodations that came with it — masking, weekly testing, travel ban — made approval meaningless. Mike's job required travel. Lisa's exemption explicitly covered testing. There was no appeal and the terms were final.</p><p>They've been in litigation since 2022. Right-to-sue letters arrived from three different EEOC offices with conflicting deadlines, and the case has been stuck on that timeline fight ever since. Four years in, no court has ruled on whether any of it was lawful.</p><p>Host Stephanie Weidle talks with Mike and Lisa about religious accommodation under Title VII, defense contractor policy during the federal mandate, EEOC process and right-to-sue delays, litigation costs for individual plaintiffs, workplace privacy, and what reform should look like.</p><p><strong>Chapters:</strong></p><p>05:21 — What the Raytheon Merger Changed</p><p>11:18 — When the COVID Policies Arrived</p><p>15:27 — Isolated by Design</p><p>19:46 — Approved, Then Ignored</p><p>24:00 — The EEOC and the Right-to-Sue Letters</p><p>36:21 — Dismissed, Then Sanctioned</p><p><strong>Four years of litigation, and not one ruling on the facts. How is that an accident?</strong></p><p>Mike and Lisa came to Feds For Freedom through the F4F Religious Discrimination Survey. Feds For Freedom is supporting their lawsuit against Raytheon.</p><p>If you support federal employees and contractors standing up for constitutional rights, subscribe to Feds For Freedom and share this episode of Own Your Freedom.</p><p><strong>Own Your Freedom—It’s That Simple</strong></p><p>🎧 Listen to<em> Own Your Freedom</em> on<a href="https://jameserdman.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Substack</strong></a> &amp; all other platforms:<a href="https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong> </strong></a><a href="https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom</strong></a></p><p>🇺🇸 Visit our Website:<a href="http://fedsforfreedom.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong> </strong></a><a href="http://fedsforfre