Posted on 08/10/2016 8:37:21 AM PDT by george76
Colorado’s labor department has ruled that more than 100 Muslim workers fired from a Cargill meatpacking plant are eligible for unemployment benefits because a company cannot force workers to choose between their religion and their jobs.
The workers filed for unemployment payments after they were fired in December by Cargill Meat Solutions, amid a dispute over whether the Muslim employees could take prayer breaks during their shifts. Cargill challenged the claims, but the company withdrew its appeals this summer after losing 20 cases, officials with the state Department of Labor said.
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the payments could cost Colorado’s unemployment fund nearly $1 million. Unemployment benefits are funded by the state’s employers. Much like an insurance policy, a company’s rates rise with the number of claims filed from its former workers.
Cargill spokesman Michael Martin said ... the company did everything it could to resolve the dispute.
“At no time did Cargill prevent people from prayer at Fort Morgan,” Martin said in December. “Nor have we changed policies related to religious accommodation and attendance. This has been mischaracterized.”
However, decision orders written by Colorado labor department hearing officers show a change in policy is what led to the walk out.
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The workers, many of whom could not read or speak English ... The Muslim workers said that their religion requires that they pray five times per day
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attorneys for the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Denver’s Rathod Mohamedbhai law firm
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What happens to these sharia types when infidels money runs out? They get their caliphate how will they get a income?
The vile scumbags are taking over our country!!!!
They’re making us pay the jizya one way or another.
What happens when Muslim employees refuse to bake a cake for a gay marriage?
[a company cannot force workers to choose between their religion and their jobs.]
However, the owner of a company is not allowed to exercise his/her religious freedom. /s
Gee, morning Mass at my Church is at 9AM.
Can I start coming in at 10?
Somalis are the most useless immigrants/refugees ever! I would like to drop Obama and Moochelle right into Somalia land wherever the f that is in God forsaken Africa....force them to stay for a ten years
What a bunch of crap. We need to get these vermin out of this state. Now they have the wherewithal to hang on here.
We need to start decorating lampposts with the political class types that allow this sort of thing.
Visited Minneapolis lately ?
And Christians have to bake the gay cakes, and dispense RU-486 .
A consideration the next time a company has a choice to hire or not hire a muzzie.
Nothing...they wont be anyone remaining to file suit
Ten years in Somalia is nothing compared to the judgement that is to come for all of us.
Strange. I always worked at “Hire at will, fire at will” places. Now the man comes in demanding a job and tells the company “I also want this, and this and this! OR ELSE!”
Not enough lampost on the planet to clean this up.
Then no Christian can ever be fired for refusing to work on Sunday or Christmas or Easter or ... And no Jew can be forced to work on Sabbath or Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashana or ... And non-’slimes must be given prayer rooms and fish on Fridays and kosher offerings and a whole lot of other accommodations.
Now let’s talk about Hindus and Sikhs ...
The big question is, WHY do they hire these mooslimes anyway???
;)
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