Fired for being Jewish.
Dr. Ian Walton was a high-performing orthopaedic surgeon in Ohio who exceeded his productivity targets.
Then came October 7.
After that, the The EEOC — the federal agency that enforces the law against job discrimination — says he faced a barrage of workplace comments blaming “the Jews” for the massacre, was shut out of meetings, had his surgery blocks cut — and in November 2023 was terminated and told it was “for no reason.”
Now, the good news is that three years on, the federal government is suing Mercy Health and Bon Secours Mercy Health.
“Antisemitism has no place in the American workplace” should not need a lawsuit. It still does.