Posted on 09/04/2015 7:06:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
From tolerance to acceptance to forced indoctrination.
PRESS RELEASE
5-29-13
EEOC Sues Star Transport, Inc. for Religious Discrimination
Agency Charges Trucking Company Failed to Accommodate and Wrongfully Terminated Two Muslim Employees For Refusal to Deliver Alcohol Due to Religious Beliefs
PEORIA, Ill. - Star Transport, Inc., a trucking company based in Morton, Ill., violated federal law by failing to accommodate two employees because of their religion, Islam, and discharging them, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
The lawsuit alleged that Star Transport refused to provide two employees with an accommodation of their religious beliefs when it terminated their employment because they refused to deliver alcohol. According to EEOC District Director John P. Rowe, who supervised administrative investigation prior to filing the lawsuit, “Our investigation revealed that Star could have readily avoided assigning these employees to alcohol delivery without any undue hardship, but chose to force the issue despite the employees’ Islamic religion.”
Failure to accommodate the religious beliefs of employees, when this can be done without undue hardship, violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion. The EEOC filed suit, (EEOC v. Star Transport, Inc., Civil Action No. 13 C 01240-JES-BGC, U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois in Peoria, assigned to U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid), after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement through its statutory conciliation process. The agency seeks back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for the fired truck drivers and an order barring future discrimination and other relief.
John Hendrickson, the EEOC Regional Attorney for the Chicago District Office said, “Everyone has a right to observe his or her religious beliefs, and employers don’t get to pick and choose which religions and which religious practices they will accommodate. If an employer can reasonably accommodate an employee’s religious practice without an undue hardship, then it must do so. That is a principle which has been memorialized in federal employment law for almost50 years, and it is why EEOC is in this case.”
The EEOC’s Chicago District Office is responsible for processing charges of discrimination, administrative enforcement and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and North and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.
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Just sayin'....
Gallagher is wrong.
“Davis is just the latest in a long, infernal line of fanatics to contort their so-called faith into an excuse for hatred and division.”
So that’s what they’re calling somebody who stands by her firmly-held religious beliefs these days. Yeah, she’s just like ISIS, y’know... /s
she was quoting a leftist
this was the author quoting a leftist
End all GOVERNMENT “marriage”. Marriage is a ceremony before God not GOVERNMENT. There is no battle to fight here except to get GOVERNMENT out of people’s personal lives.
Five unelected, unaccountable, partisan lawyers are not the final word on anything.
Perversion won! Perversion won!
Pray for Kim Davis. Pray for America.
From tolerance to acceptance to forced indoctrination to forced homosexual sex, oral and anal rape.
Major unaddressed problem in this issue:
Kentucky marriage law has not been clarified under the applicable SCOTUS ruling.
The law still is abundantly clear about who marriage licenses may be issued to, and judicial norm is that if a law is vacated due to an error in part the ENTIRE law is [considered] vacated. To wit: KY has no marriage law for Kim Davis to act on, and it is proper for her to (as has been doing) to not issue any such licenses to anyone.
So...she has lost her personal freedom because in her elected administrative capacity she is failing to act on a nonexistent law. That’s despotism.
859-392-7907
Call but please be respectful.
It seems like Maggie hasn’t read, or doesn’t understand, the first amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
Queers have now been liberated from everything except their consciences.
I missed that. Thank you for the correction.
if mrs davis feels her conscience prevents her from following a court order, she should resign her office.
problem solved
Rosa Parks may have been the spark, but the movement was the thousands of people who caught fire from that spark.
Unless we see thousands of people in front of that courthouse protesting her jailing, there is no movement.
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