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| Dell Fires 30 Tennessee Muslims Over Workplace Prayer |
| 03.11.05 (9:16 am) [edit] |
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WASHINGTON, March 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on Dell Computers to rehire 30 Muslims workers allegedly fired from a plant in Tennessee for seeking to perform religiously-mandated prayers in the workplace. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also offered to help the company and its employees reach a mutually-agreeable solution to the dispute. CAIR said the workers were fired from a Dell facility in Nashville, Tenn., after they sought to perform the Islamic "Maghrib" prayer each day after sunset. (While the window of opportunity to perform the other four daily Islamic prayers, the sunset prayer is tied to a particular time of day and therefore requires greater flexibility and creativity on the part of employers and workers. Muslims pray each day after the break of dawn, at midday, in the afternoon, at sunset, and in the evening.) SEE: 30 MUSLIM WORKERS FIRED FOR PRAYING ON JOB AT DELL http://www.tennessean.com/loc... "Given sufficient goodwill on the part of all those involved, both the employees' legal right to reasonable religious accommodation and the employer's right to maintain smooth operations in the workplace can be maintained," said CAIR Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar. In a letter sent today to Dell President and CEO Kevin B. Rollins, Iftikhar asked that the Muslim workers be rehired pending resolution of the issues involved. He said CAIR staffers who have experience dealing with workplace religious accommodation are available to act as mediators between the Muslim workers and Dell. CAIR publishes a booklet, called "An Employer's Guide to Islamic Religious Practices," designed to prevent just such incidents. The booklet is available by e-mailing pubs@cair- net.org. (Include name, address and phone number when requesting the booklet.) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires an employer to accommodate religious practices unless it causes an "undue hardship." The Washington-based group has 31 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding. Via: Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/news?tm... UPDATE: Seems the good folks at CAIR were a little less than truthful (I'm shocked. Shocked!!!) Looks like our devout friends were given a choice. Hey, I've worked in a 2500 seat call center, and we had several hundred muslim workers. These folks would log out of their phones, get up, and pray to one of my IDF closets three times a day. Look, I have no problem with spirituality, but come on! I never had to fight my way through fanatical Quakers to get to equipment in an IDF closet that needed attention. These a**holes acted as if I'd pissed on a Mosque. No other "religion" forced us to alter normal business procedures to accomodate them. Religion of peace my ass. Muslim Workers Walk Off Job Over Prayers NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Thirty Muslims walked off the job at a Dell Inc. plant after alleging the company refused to let them pray at sunset — the latest dispute over prayer between an American business and its Islamic employees. The Muslim workers, who were packaging Dell computers through a temporary labor agency, are taking the dispute to mediation, both sides said Friday. Most of the employees are from Somalia. Abdirizak Hassan, executive director of the Somali Community Center of Nashville, said the workers walked out of the company's Nashville plant last month because they were not allowed time for prayers. The question of how to integrate Islamic prayers into the American workplace is becoming far more common, with many companies using a "tag out" system to accommodate the prayers, said Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The policy allows workers to step away a few at a time for sunset prayers. Muslims are required by their faith to pray five times a day. Most of the prayer times are flexible, but the sunset prayers must be said at dusk. Byrne Mulrooney, a spokesman for labor agency Spherion Corp., said the company was still trying to determine what happened. He said the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company has a good record of accommodating its Muslim workers. Dell spokesman Mark Drury said company officials are looking into the Feb. 4 incident. He said the Round Rock, Texas-based company has a "tag out" policy, and wants to know if Spherion was following it. HINT: This is called appeasement, morons. Islam's mission is for every person on the planet to convert, become a slave, or be killed. Read it's fliping "holy" books fer crying out loud. Oh yes, a shout-out to CAIR: Fuck you. |
posted by: Mr.Goodness (reply)
post date: 09.04.06 (10:15 am)
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