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Posted on 10/23/2015 6:55:33 PM PDT by PROCON
One more data point on the “When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?” question — like it or not, under American law, employers sometimes do have to excuse employees from tasks that the employees find religiously objectionable. Tuesday, two Muslim truck drivers who were fired for refusing to deliver shipments containing alcohol were awarded $40,000 in compensatory damages and $200,000 in punitive damages by the jury in their discrimination claim.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought suit on their behalf (EEOC v. Star Transport Co., Inc. (N.D. Ill.)), arguing that the employer had failed to provide “reasonable accommodations” to the employees — i.e., accommodations (including an exemption from job duties) that could be provided without “undue hardship” to the employer or others. The court noted that Star Transport had indeed often “swap[ped]’ loads between drivers,” and Star Transport conceded that it could have easily accommodated this request, too, but argued (unsuccessfully) that it shouldn’t be liable for punitive damages.
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H/T George Orwell
Pissed yet?
Why did they hire this clown in the first place
If they were Christians refusing to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding, it would have been a whole different situation.
Where is the ACLU?
Rhetorical question, of course.
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I think once the company admitted they could easily accommodate the request, it was over for them.
But don’t you DARE refuse to dispense Plan B if you’re a pharmacist!
The company did have poor legal representation, but this is openly religious favoritism nonetheless.
Looks like America’s pretty much walked out the door and ‘something” else altogether has taken over to suck the life out of what’s left.........(sigh)
I don’t know what they’re driving but if it’s gas fueled, they’re transporting alcohol every mile they drive.
But Muslim truck drivers WILL toss a live goat in the back of their loaded semi (loaded with boxes of manufacturing components) for a six hour drive back to Dearborn, in order to sacrifice it.
And you wondered how boxes get damaged in transportation?
(I raise goats, and this actually just happened to me last month when I sold one to a guy who asked me to meet him at a truck stop. My jaw was hanging open when he opened the doors and I saw the truck was loaded, so much that I couldn’t protest but only stared in disbelief.)
Or a gay wedding cake?
I wonder if the same would have happened if the drivers were Mormon. I doubt it.
When a piano player is hired to play piano in a cat house, he plays because he knows his job is to play piano there. No one forced him to take the job. Likewise with Mohammed.
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Yes, without a doubt.
So did you let him take the goat?
I think once the company admitted they could easily accommodate the request, it was over for them.
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That was a really dumb thing for them to do.
I can only surmise that the spectre of some distant fear within, strikes at the courts in some respects. Try getting a successful judgement regarding the abrogation of Christian beliefs. The only other fact is that according to the Peoria Journal Star. Star Transport is bankrupt. (Smart move?)
I am indebted to the British Guardian newspaper for this information. 74 year old Karl Andree, oil executive in Saudi Arabia for 25 years, was caught with home made wine. Though it has not been carried out he was sentenced to 500 lashes. Appeals are made to PM David Cameron to intervene. Family says the relative will die if sentence is carried out.
The Arabic high authorities must think we in the West are the biggest fools ever.
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