Thread: "Prayer Break" Muslims in MN reach settlement w/em

Minnesota Plant That Fired Muslims for Taking Prayer Breaks Will Pay $365,000

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS — Under a settlement to a federal lawsuit, up to 100 Somali Muslims who are current or former workers at Gold'n Plump Inc. will receive a total of $365,000.

The settlement was filed in Minneapolis on Friday. It sprang from allegations of religious discrimination at the company's chicken processing plants in Cold Spring and Arcadia, Wis.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed lawsuits against St. Cloud-based Gold'n Plump and the Work Connection Inc., an employment agency in St. Paul, which handled some hiring for the plant.

Under the settlement, Gold'n Plump agreed to pay $215,000 to workers who were terminated for taking prayer breaks.

The Work Connection will pay $150,000 to workers who were asked to sign a form acknowledging that they might be required to handle pork, which many Muslims consider unclean.

The EEOC estimates that 40 to 100 workers will qualify for the payments.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,450 ... c/us/crime

Originally Posted by florgal

Minnesota Plant That Fired Muslims for Taking Prayer Breaks Will Pay $365,000

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS — Under a settlement to a federal lawsuit, up to 100 Somali Muslims who are current or former workers at Gold'n Plump Inc. will receive a total of $365,000.

The settlement was filed in Minneapolis on Friday. It sprang from allegations of religious discrimination at the company's chicken processing plants in Cold Spring and Arcadia, Wis.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed lawsuits against St. Cloud-based Gold'n Plump and the Work Connection Inc., an employment agency in St. Paul, which handled some hiring for the plant.

Under the settlement, Gold'n Plump agreed to pay $215,000 to workers who were terminated for taking prayer breaks.

The Work Connection will pay $150,000 to workers who were asked to sign a form acknowledging that they might be required to handle pork, which many Muslims consider unclean.

The EEOC estimates that 40 to 100 workers will qualify for the payments.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,450 ... c/us/crime

Why not do your prayer on your break? And if handling pork is unclean to you, go work somewhere else, or shut up and get back to work already. This PC coddling is going to be another nail this nation's coffin.

This PC coddling is going to be another nail this nation's coffin.

Get those checks going for all the Christians who were forced to work on Christian holidays, and Sundays by being told you either work it or you're out of a job. Everyone of those jobs that say....weekends a must. We have people who have to scan cigarettes and alcohol and caffine and other things that are against their relegion. Condoms on down the line to movies, adult porno, magazines they don't like, halloween costumes.... to videos. Then we have those who don't believe in anything that can be offended by anything relegious and refuse to work if it's present. This could go to such insane degrees there won't be anyone working. I think I'm going to apply for a stripper job and then complain it's against my relegion to do it and get some money for that........LOL Why not....seems it's ok for everyone else.