and then there's the mulims at seatac who thought they should get paid for taking time to pray. hertz asked them to clock out and back in if they needed to pray. they didn't. hertz fired them.
stupid fuckers. the muslims i mean. why on god's earth should they get paid to pray? i don't. come on special interest group, get with the program or go back east. we don't owe you anything.
the comments generally agree. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051914/Hertz-fires-26-Muslim-shuttle-drivers-refused-clock-prayer-breaks.html
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"The union also is filing religious discrimination charges with the EEOC."
ReplyDeleteI see this has having as much chance as a snowball. From their side, Hertz seemed ready to accommodate adherence to daily religious tenets as long as the employees were, in return, willing to faithfully report whether or not they were abusing the agreement.
To choose an analogy, if an employee asks for smoke breaks but stays away from work longer than the agreed-upon 10-minute break, no one expects a resulting class-action lawsuit on supposed behalf of smokers everywhere.
I don't honestly know the time length of typical daytime Islamic rituals, but I'd be surprised if it was over 10 minutes. So I guess I see this story and say, employees: do what you're paid to do, for the amount of time you're paid to do it. If you have an excuse every day for shirking your duty ("hey, I just felt like an extra smoke" "[god figure] seemed to be listening a lot today" "that [person] down the hall and I just got to chatting..."), then you're in danger of constituting continued negligence and your employer has every reason to fire you. I don't care your excuse.