Bunn E. Rabbit wrote:

What's next? Beheadings in the workplace?

--
Keith

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200503\NAT20050318b.html

Muslims Settle 'Prayer in the Workplace' Dispute
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Morning Editor
March 18, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - An Islamic civil rights group says it has reached a
settlement with the Dell computer company involving 31 Muslim
employees who wanted to time out from work to pray at sunset.

Coincidentally, a bill reintroduced in Congress on Thursday would
address situations such as the one at Dell.

The workers walked off their assembly-line jobs at Dell's computer
manufacturing plant in Nashville, Tenn., last month when they were
told they had to choose between praying on the job or losing the job.
Devout Muslims pray five times a day.)

In a settlement announced late Thursday, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the workers will be

reinstated,

receive back pay and be granted religious accommodation.

Dell managers will receive additional training on existing religious
accommodation policies and practices, CAIR said in a press release.

It

added that other terms of the settlement will not be made public.

The settlement was announced after a meeting between CAIR, Dell, the
Muslim workers, the Nashville Metro Human Relations Commission, and
Spherion Corp., the company that provided the workers to Dell.

"We are pleased with both the terms of the settlement and with the
cooperative attitude of all parties in the negotiations," said CAIR
Executive Director Nihad Awad in a press release.

"We thank everyone from around the world who contacted Dell to

express

their support for reasonable religious accommodation in the
workplace."

"This settlement can be used as model by other production facilities
that employ large numbers of Muslim workers," said CAIR Legal

Director

Arsalan Iftikhar, who also participated in today's negotiations.

CAIR publishes a booklet called "An Employer's Guide to Islamic
Religious Practices," which it says is designed to prevent incidents
like the one at Dell.

Congress introduces legislation

Coincidentally, a bipartisan "Workplace Religious Freedom Act" was
reintroduced in the House and Senate on Thursday, and backers --
including conservative Christian groups -- predict it will pass this
time.

The bill would require companies hiring 15 or more people to assume
more of a burden than they do now in accommodating employees'
religious practices. It beefs up the test for "undue hardship" when
companies are asked to make "reasonable accommodation."

Critics of the bill, including the American Civil Liberties Union and
homosexual activists, say it is too broad and may uphold some rights
at the expense of others. The Human Rights Campaign issued a

statement

warning that some religious rights might erode anti-discrimination
protections.

Some Republicans worry that the bill may be too costly for

businesses.

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In article <935n311tbbn145c4r5hs89ptj7gkkksmbc@4ax.com>, Bunn E. Rabbit
<BunnERabbit@verizon.hutch.net> wrote:

What's next? Beheadings in the workplace?

It's the global marketplace in action.

Maybe it's just that organized labor addressing grievances and
achieving an accord with the corporate masters ruffles your feathers.

--
GlennGlenn -- aa#825 --

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:57:42 GMT, Bunn E. Rabbit
<BunnERabbit@verizon.hutch.net> wrote:

What's next? Beheadings in the workplace?

jews getting to go home early on Fridays?

--
Keith

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200503\NAT20050318b.html

Muslims Settle 'Prayer in the Workplace' Dispute
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Morning Editor
March 18, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - An Islamic civil rights group says it has reached a
settlement with the Dell computer company involving 31 Muslim
employees who wanted to time out from work to pray at sunset.

Coincidentally, a bill reintroduced in Congress on Thursday would
address situations such as the one at Dell.

The workers walked off their assembly-line jobs at Dell's computer
manufacturing plant in Nashville, Tenn., last month when they were
told they had to choose between praying on the job or losing the job.
Devout Muslims pray five times a day.)

In a settlement announced late Thursday, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the workers will be reinstated,
receive back pay and be granted religious accommodation.

Dell managers will receive additional training on existing religious
accommodation policies and practices, CAIR said in a press release. It
added that other terms of the settlement will not be made public.

The settlement was announced after a meeting between CAIR, Dell, the
Muslim workers, the Nashville Metro Human Relations Commission, and
Spherion Corp., the company that provided the workers to Dell.

"We are pleased with both the terms of the settlement and with the
cooperative attitude of all parties in the negotiations," said CAIR
Executive Director Nihad Awad in a press release.

"We thank everyone from around the world who contacted Dell to express
their support for reasonable religious accommodation in the
workplace."

"This settlement can be used as model by other production facilities
that employ large numbers of Muslim workers," said CAIR Legal Director
Arsalan Iftikhar, who also participated in today's negotiations.

CAIR publishes a booklet called "An Employer's Guide to Islamic
Religious Practices," which it says is designed to prevent incidents
like the one at Dell.

Congress introduces legislation

Coincidentally, a bipartisan "Workplace Religious Freedom Act" was
reintroduced in the House and Senate on Thursday, and backers --
including conservative Christian groups -- predict it will pass this
time.

The bill would require companies hiring 15 or more people to assume
more of a burden than they do now in accommodating employees'
religious practices. It beefs up the test for "undue hardship" when
companies are asked to make "reasonable accommodation."

Critics of the bill, including the American Civil Liberties Union and
homosexual activists, say it is too broad and may uphold some rights
at the expense of others. The Human Rights Campaign issued a statement
warning that some religious rights might erode anti-discrimination
protections.

Some Republicans worry that the bill may be too costly for businesses.

-------------------------------------

Fed up with illegal immigration?
_____
http://www.saveourstate.org
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frostyA.htm
http://www.americanpatrol.com/LINKS/LINKS.html
http://www.vdare.com/links.htm
http://www.stoptheinvasion.com/links/
_____

"Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death
of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." -Anouk Aimee, French Actor
_____

"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny", Aeschylus (525BC-456BC),
Agamemnon
_____

"I wear no Burka." - Mother Nature

----------
To send mail: remove hutch

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:57:42 GMT, Bunn E. Rabbit
<BunnERabbit@verizon.hutch.net> wrote:

What's next? Beheadings in the workplace?

jews getting to go home early on Fridays?