A former environmental worker for Los Angeles County is suing her ex-employer, alleging she was wrongfully denied a religious exemption to taking the previously mandated coronavirus vaccine and forced to resign due to a hostile work environment, a year before the vaccination policy was lifted.

Belinda Larsen’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges religious discrimination, retaliation and failure to accommodate. She seeks unspecified compensatory damages as well as attorney’s fees.

A county spokeswoman said County Counsel had no comment on the complaint filed Monday.

Larsen was hired by the county in September 1991 and at the time of her resignation was an environmental health specialist. The county’s mandatory employee coronavirus vaccination policy was enacted in August 2021 and

See Full Page