Posted on 08/31/2010 5:46:07 PM PDT by Daffynition
OMAHA — Federal officials say a JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant should give Muslim employees prayer time and not retaliate against workers who ask to pray.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of more than 80 Somali Muslims.
A message left at JBS Swift's U.S. headquarters in Greeley wasn't immediately returned.
Hundreds of Muslim workers walked off the job at the Grand Island, Neb., plant during Ramadan in 2008, saying they needed time to pray at sunset and break a day-long fast. Management adjusted the work schedule the next day.
Non-Muslims protested and the accommodations ended. The company fired 86 Muslims for walking off the job and said the firings weren't about religion.
Exactly. I was wondering WTF they were thinking.
I get sick just thinking about them.
This, too, is jihad.
Exactly. Same goes for that one who worked at Disney for two years and then all of a sudden decided she wasn't getting her Religion of Pieces perks. They all agreed to the company's policy, work hours, uniform, and break times so tough cookies now.
The illegal Mexicans got deported and replaced by Somali Muslims who were handed visas by the tens of thousands to work jobs that Americans used to be paid $17/hr plus benefits to do.
Look on the bright side... At least they did not detonate a bomb or fly airplanes into the plant.
That's mean spirited and anti-freedom of religion? There'd be an argument about that but there's no argument with what Justice Jackson said wa-a-a-a-a-y back in the 1940s:
"The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact." (May not be the exact quote.)
When are American Muslims going to try to understand and respect our culture?
If you have ever been in a predominantly Somali community in this country, or any other sub-Saharan African neighborhood, you would only have to change the pavement for the pathways to realize you’re somewhere else. And there are stores to go with all that. Here.
Do Not Hire Muslims by Bernie Planck
When Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed there were few Shariah-compliant Muslims living in America. The Muslims we did have, such as the Nation of Islam, are so far removed from actual Islam that they do not matter for the purposes of this discussion.
Because we had so few actual Muslims from Muslim cultures, the law did not take into account the arrogance of those who follow the Islamic political ideology.
Title VII “prohibits employers from discriminating against individuals because of their religion in hiring, firing, and other terms and conditions of employment. Employers must reasonably accommodate employees’ sincerely held religious beliefs or practices unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the employer.” Obviously safety issues would prevent someone with long sleeves from operating a meat-cutting machine.
But here’s the problem: what undue hardship is imposed on Disney by allowing a hijab-covered woman to play the role of Princess Cinderella at her castle? Is there any safety issue? Not really. How about the fact that some customers may feel uneasy about a person wearing Islamic clothing? Well, that’s just Islamophobia and vacationers should just suck up and accept the fact that we can’t have things our way anymore.
Two months after 9/11 Alamo Car Rental fired a Somali customer sales representative for refusing to remove her head scarf during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Alamo was ordered to pay 250,000 dollars in punitive damages. 1
Alamo should have the right to determine what is the proper attire for their employees to wear. Two months after 9/11 was not a time to stick a middle finger into their customers’ faces.
Last year, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Abercrombie and Fitch for refusing to hire a 17-year-old girl who wore a head scarf to her job interview for Abercrombie Kids in Oklahoma. The head scarf violated the company’s “Look Policy,” which forbids head coverings. 2
It is obvious that this was not religious discrimination. A&F would have refused to hire this woman even if she were an Atheist who did not fit the profile they were looking for to present to their customers.
My advice to retailers who are concerned with protecting their brand image: when confronted with a Muslim woman who shows up seeking employment but not wearing a hijab or abaya at the interview, do not ask if she will ever suddenly decide to wear a hijab or a scarf or someday demand 5 breaks during the day to pray. Simply nod and say, “OK we’ll get back to you.” But you know what to do: pick someone else and respond that you appreciate her considering your company for employment and that someone else was hired for the job.
As I warned everyone, hiring a Muslim will only lead to a religious accommodation lawsuit.
Here’s a warning to hair salons. If a Muslim woman not wearing a headscarf comes for a job, be warned that one day after she has been working for a while, she will come in with her head completely covered. Instead of being able to wear interesting hairstyles to entice your customers to take certain haircuts, she will not be able to do that job. However, since you do not have the money that large corporations do to take her to court, you will be stuck with her until you die. But do not tell her you are refusing to hire her for fear that she will not be able to do her job, a poor woman in the UK was already sued for beaucoup bucks for rightly telling a Muslim woman she is not suitable for the job.
So here’s the deal. Since Muslims are coming into this country in greater numbers, and since the Muslim point of view is that infidels, being the inferior people, must accommodate Muslim needs, then one day a Muslim woman will show up at your salon wearing full head gear just itching for you to turn her down on religious grounds so she can sue you and not bother to work. In criminal parlance, this is known as their M.O.
Do not mention the head covering, do not even appear to notice it. If she asks if the abaya or headscarf or whatever is a problem, simply pretend you didn’t even notice it. Tell her politely that you are interviewing quite a number of people and that you’ll get back to her. But you know what to do. Do not talk to your employees about the matter, do not say hell will freeze over before you hire a tent-covered imbecile for your salon, do not leave any chance that any one will be subpoenaed to court and testify against you. Pretend that you are seriously considering everyone regardless of appearance.
Act offended that anyone would suggest that you might be prejudiced, even though this has nothing to do with religious intolerance, this is strictly a matter of survival of your salon business. The truth is, the law, originally written to protect genuine religious discrimination concerns, is wholly at the mercy of Muslims who misuse the law for their benefit.
If you own a restaurant, absolutely do not hire a Muslim. It will only be after he or she starts working that you will find out that they refuse to handle a bacon and egg sandwich, that some other infidel waitress will have to handle those orders. If you try to fire them they will take you to court, but after spending thousands, even if you win, which is unlikely, you will lose. You may then find yourself a target of Muslims who will attempt to injure you for your treatment of a fellow Muslim. Better not to get involved right from the beginning.
If you are not sure if the person before you is a Muslim and you are hiring a cook, take him to your kitchen where you have previously placed a fork under a bunch of bacon strips. Nonchalantly ask him to hand you that fork and if he says something about being unable to touch bacon, make sure to remark, “Oh that’s not a problem, I am looking for someone to cook non-pork items, don’t worry about it.” Slough it off and concentrate on seeing how he scrambles eggs or something else. Do not act as if his being a Muslim is any problem. Mention that you are interviewing quite a number of applicants and that you will get back to him. You know what to do.
If you do not believe that a Muslim would seek a job as a cook for infidels and then refuse to cook food that infidels eat, you obviously are clueless about the arrogance of Muslims in their demands of accommodation. It happens, believe it: A Muslim chef is suing the Met police in London after being asked to cook pork sausages and bacon for breakfast. 3 The nerve of the police asking him to cook things they want to eat!
BTW, the cook’s lawyer said, “The Met could easily have met his demands.” Ah, yes, all they had to do was stop eating British breakfasts and go Halal. How easy.
Jews do not eat bacon but they also do not ask for jobs they cannot do. In the 200 years that Jews have been in this country, in the thousands of years that Jews have been in Europe, have you ever heard of one single case of a Jew suing a non-Jew because he did not want to touch bacon?
Religious Jewish women must also dress modestly but they also do not ask for jobs they cannot do. In the 200 years that Jews have been in this country, in the thousands of years that Jews have been in Europe, have you ever heard of one single case of a Jewess suing a non-Jew because she was not hired for wearing a headscarf?
Muslims have been coming into the West only in the past few decades and already they demand infidels to be subjugate to the Islamic way of life, that we change the way we run our businesses, that we change the way we eat, that we respect where they want to place their places of worship regardless of our feelings, our culture, our way of life. What chutzpah!
If you hire a Muslim you are an idiot and you deserve everything that happens to you.
Legal Disclaimer: I sometimes provide information about the law designed to help my readers safely cope with their own legal needs. But legal information is not the same as legal advice or how you may apply the law to your individual, specific circumstances. I do not like giving advice regarding the breaking of any law, but when that law is abused by followers of Political Islam for the sole purpose of destroying the American way of life, I believe it is our duty to disobey that law. My personal belief is that it is immoral to refuse to hire a qualified person for a job strictly on religious grounds. But if a person’s religious beliefs may interfere with his future performance, then I do not believe we should accommodate that religion.
For example, if you are a hospital human resources person you should not hire a Jehovah’s Witness to administer blood transfusions. The ACLU would argue that that would be religious discrimination. After all, a reasonable accommodation could be made so that the Witness would only have to do tasks that would not expose him to blood directly, perhaps he could make the beds prior to a transfusion or calibrate equipment. But this is all nonsense; JW do not have an agenda that involves the conversion of our way of life through intimidation and legal blackmail, so you will never see one asking for a job he cannot do.
If Islam were a religion rather than an ideology bent on our destruction then certainly I would not be suggesting that we act in a bigoted way. See my full Disclaimer.
Article from:
http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2010/08/do_not_hire_muslims.html
The Feds going after Americans again. I guess Barry is looking for a national meat-packing company to add to his collection.
Swift should follow the commands of the tyrant in our White House. (1) Rehire all the slugs and parasites they fired. (2) Grant prayer time five times a day. (3) Fire every single one of those troublemakers who walked off the job but do it for other, unrelated reasons, spreading the firings over several weeks or even months. If the thugs interfere with that too, rehire everyone again, and in a couple of months close that plant due to reduced product demand (open another plant first if necessary). Obama and his National Socialists have taken over GM and Chrysler, along with several of our large banks. They cannot be permitted to take even partial control of the day to day operations of small or medium companies.
They’ve been doing it for 25 years.
LOL! I do it all the time. 8^)
Yet.....
That is one nice fotochop.
Well done Swift, you idiots.
What, no Americans need jobs in your area?
That's exactly how I've handled every non-hire notification. I forget the exact verbiage, but it was to the effect, "Thanks for considering our position at XYZ Corporation. We have hired an individual who best fits the position, and our needs as a corporation. We wish you well, and success in your search for employment."
This was a corporate-wide policy and, to my understanding, never caused any negative reaction. At the time, however Muslim applicants were not an issue; at least in my experience.
Yeesh!
We have not had this ridculous PC ‘tolerance” before...Orthodox Jews had to cope, other foreigners had to cope and as for the Amish and their buggies and beards, they aren’t blowing us up...
thank God I don’t live near them.
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