Posted on 11/14/2007 7:31:47 PM PST by Pikamax
Muslim prayer time new legal issue at Swift plant DAN PACKARD MORRIS NEWS SERVICE
AMARILLO - The dispute over prayer breaks for Muslim employees at the Swift & Co. plant in Cactus is a two-sided legal issue, an Amarillo attorney said this week.
At least 54 plant employees, all Muslims of African descent, walked off the job last week, citing the company's refusal to allow them two prayer breaks and female employees adequate time to wash after using the restroom, a strict requirement of the religion.
Vicki Wilmarth, an attorney specializing in employment law, said, "The basic rule is, an employer has to reasonably accommodate an employee's religious beliefs and practices, but only if the employee can do so without undo hardship to the employer's business.
"So it's a balancing act. It requires the employer and employees to determine what a reasonable accommodation would be."
Wilmarth said the federal statute governing religious discrimination in the workplace is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the state statute is Texas Labor Code section 21.051.
"Although neither statute says that employers have to reasonably accommodate religion, the courts have implied that and the regulations enforce that."
Muslim workers pray five times a day and are asking Swift to grant two breaks a day: one at 4 p.m. and one at sunset.
"Breaks have to be paid if they are less than 30 minutes, but the law doesn't say how many there have to be," Wilmarth said.
You have got to be kidding me........
What an absolute crock.....
“Do any of these people get these benifits where wherever the hell they come from?”
Hardly anyone works in any of their home countries.
Be sure to watch all four parts.
You don't need subtitles as it follows pretty closely the story in the book -- Pooh uses a ballon to get the honey, visits Owl and Eeyore, and gets stuck in Rabbit's door, etc.
Strange though, they copied the name, copied a famous “Pooh” story and copied Piglet pretty well
These are the real A.A. Milne stories, fully licensed and are as legitimate as the Disney versions.
Gyrating it Heavenward is an offense to The Almighty, and I dare say, a stench in His nostrils..
That, and also a way to train Americans to bow down to any Muslim demand lest they be called racist, and as we know in today's world there is no greater crime.
Thank you.....any ‘religion’ that has a fatwa against Winnie the Pooh or Piglet needs to have a Reformation at the very least,”
You can reform a Religion that was born in Peace and which wandered but you cannot reform a religion that was born in violence by rage hate and ignorance.
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You're right of course. We will most likely end up having to kill them all, until they decide to convert to something more sane.
An Irish farmer walking through his field, notices a man drinking out of a pond.
The Irish farmer shouted: “Paid a yfed a dwr, maer gwerthin wedi cachu un a for.” Which in Gaelic means: “Don’t drink the water the cows have shit in it.”
The man shouts back: “I’m a Muslim, I don’t understand. Please speak in English.”
The Irish farmer says: “Use two hands, you’ll hold more”!!!
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