Now they've caved. Too bad.
They said they could re-apply. They didn’t say they would hire them back.
I’m not surprised that the company may hire a lot of these people back. Getting 200 new employees to do that kind of work wasn’t going to be easy.
Seems to me that CAIR and the writers of the article are misrepresenting what actually happened.
It is my understanding from what I read elsewhere that these Muslims were NOT told they couldn’t pray - the company allowed for that. They all wanted to pray together and the company held that all of them leaving their work stations at the same time would disrupt production.
The article to me implies that company banned their pray altogether.
Probably because there are a limited number of people willing to work at the meat packing plant for the wages Cargill is willing to pay.
How long before Cargill has to recall products?
I guess I will have to research just what I might be buying that comes from that facility to avoid food poisoning.
Mass quitting not firing. You don’t show up to work it means you quit.
I have serious concerns about Jihadists working in the food and beverage industry...color me skeptic. Or better yet, color me Islamiphobic - I am a realist after all.
So don’t buy their products any longer.
OMG...militant Somali Muslims are working in Cargile meat packing plants and have access to our food! Someone should print a list of brands that use this meat. I certainly don’t want it on my table. We became too familiar with the loathsome Somalies in MN.
‘’Thank-you for re-applying to work. Your application is under consideration for a position on our pork products line.’’
It should be 30 years, but if these ash holes re-hire these savages they deserve whatever the savages do to them financially and physically.
Sorry, Mohammed, that position has been filled.
No, Adhmed, we’ve eliminated that position.
Thank you, Saed, we’ll keep your application right here in file 13.
Watch for the Cargill poisoned meat articles.
However, the key word is "reasonable accommodation". What I've read of this case, "11 Somali (Muslim) workers in one part of the plant all wanted to pray at once during the second shift. Normally, the company allows only one to three to go at a time during a shift so as not to interfere with meat production."
Cargill allowed prayer breaks and even "has long had two "reflection rooms," where Muslim workers can take short, usually 5-minute, prayer breaks." I wonder if they would provide chapels with Holy Water Fonts for Catholics or separate "reflection rooms" for Jews, Hindus and Pastafarians? /s
Not allowing 11 workers working on the same shift and the same production line to all take a prayer break at the very same time does not seem unreasonable as it would IMO fall under and "would pose an undue hardship" to the company. See numbers 6 through 9:
http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/qanda_religion.html
But the 150 who were fired were not as I understand extended past the 11, nor were they fired for requesting a reasonable accommodation for prayer break(s) nor for complaining over the policy, they just failed to show up for work for three days which is grounds for termination.
Where I work a no-call, no-show for even one day, unless there are extenuating circumstances such as the employee was in an accident or hospitalized and too ill to call off (and yes we even had one who was arrested and in jail for a DUI, but on a weekend when he was not scheduled to work FWIW) is grounds for termination. A no-call, no-show for three days is considered job abandonment and a "voluntary" resignation. We have a policy were anyone terminated for job abandonment is not eligible for re-hire in 30 days or in 180 days but EVER!
Use this:
http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html
Copy and paste and then "Convert" and paste the converted text. An extra step which should not be necessary but until this is fixed, works great.