Earlier this week, six Somali Muslim women filed religious discrimination complaints with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights over the uniform policy of their New Brighton, Minnesota employer, Mission Foods. Thursday's Finance and Commerce reports that the women dress in traditional Islamic robes and head coverings, and refuse to wear a new pants-and-shirt uniform, saying to do so would be inconsistent with their religious beliefs. Mission Foods is the largest producer of tortillas in the US.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
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If they don't like the dress code, find a new job.
Title VII requires that employers try to accommodate their employees religious beliefs. While the teeth of this requirement has been removed, it seems conceivable that the workers and factory could come to some compromise dress code that meets safety and religious requirements.
If these are valuable employees the company will find a way to accomodate or meet them in the middle. If these are as I suspect shills for activists or activist lawyers then this is just another effort to force "The Religion of Peace" upon the rest of us.
Federal Regs requiring businesses to accomodate this kind of imposition would have the founding fathers spinning in their graves.
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