Throughout the Coronavirus pandemic, tens of thousands of nurses and other medical professionals across the country were unjustly fired from their positions because they refused to get vaccinated.

The health care sector, which once adored these brave men and women, kicked them to the curb the minute they decided not to participate in a medical expert they were understandably nervous over or for religious reasons wanted nothing to do with. As a result of their personal decisions, they were fired.

Months later, however, civil liberty lawsuits are starting to take shape and many are even paying out settlements for the highly illegal actions taken against healthworkers who were wrongfully dismissed.

More than 500 current and former Illinois health care workers will now be compensated after being denied religious exemptions to the Covid-19 vaccine mandate by the NorthShore University HealthSystem, signaling a huge victory for medical freedom.

According to the Washington Examiner, the group of healthcare workers will receive a $10 million settlement after U.S. District Judge John Kness, a Trump-appointed judge, sided with legal group Liberty Counsel representing 13 plaintiffs in the state’s Northern District Court in late July.

The 13 plaintiffs are eligible to receive an additional $20,000. Workers who resigned or were fired for failing to comply with the vaccine mandate are eligible to receive $25,000, and workers who received the vaccine against their religious beliefs will be eligible for roughly $3,000 in compensation, the group noted.

Those fired over opposition to the mandate will also be eligible for re-employment.

Founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, Mat Staver, told “Fox & Friends” that virtually all employees were denied religious accommodations to the vaccine mandate.

“It was literally no religious accommodation, which they’re required to do under the federal employment law called Title VII,” Staver said.