MN: CAIR filing another employment discrimination
case involving Somalis and prayer breaks, by
Ann Corcoran 4/29/16
This one involves a manufacturer of
door and window hardware (not meatpacking for a change). For the life of
me, I don’t know why these manufacturers keep doing the same thing and
expecting a different outcome—hire Muslims then end up in legal hot water over
prayer break times. And, if you don’t know what this is….this is creeping sharia!
CAIR-MN director Jaylani Hussein:
50% of our work now involves suing employers for discriminating against
Muslims. See what ‘Minnesota nice’ gets you!
Owatonna is a little town of 25,000 or so in the southeast corner of
the state within easy driving distance of the two big hubs of Somali refugee
resettlement—-Minneapolis and Rochester. However, Owatonna is a direct
resettlement site too, see here. I love the irony! Be sure to see Owatonna embraces its Somalis!
Nearly two dozen Muslim Somali-Americans are filing discrimination
charges with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity against hardware maker
AmesburyTruth and Doherty Staffing Solutions.
The fired workers said they were denied a place to pray at an Owatonna,
Minn., manufacturing plant and lost their jobs for trying to practice their
religion.
The Minnesota chapter of the Council
on American-Islamic Relations is leading the effort on behalf of 21 former
workers who were terminated in May and June 2015.
Owatonna, MN Main Street. They are
changing America by changing the people! Followers of Islam pray five times
each day — at daybreak, midday, afternoon, sunset and at night. Before prayer,
Muslims are required to wash their faces, hands and feet with clean water,
which normally is performed in a restroom sink.
AmesburyTruth is headquartered in
Edina and makes hardware for doors and windows, weather strips and extrusions.
The company has about 2,000 employees at 11 locations around the country.
The Owatonna plant employs about 800
workers and specializes in making windows, hinges, locks and other hardware
used in casement windows.
CAIR-MN’s civil rights director Amarita Singh underscored that Muslim
employees have the constitutional right to have employers accommodate their
religious practices.
Jaylani Hussein, CAIR-MN’s executive
director, said more than 50 percent of the organization’s casework now comes
from these types of workers’ rights cases, though many are resolved without
needing to involve the courts. Gee, I wonder why?
Nationwide, anti-Muslim sentiment has risen dramatically in the past
year, sparking protests and anti-refugee legislation in Idaho, Tennessee,
Alabama, Texas and elsewhere, said Stephen Piggott of the Southern Poverty Law
Center, a nonprofit focused on civil rights. More
here at the Star Tribune.
Search Somalis Minnesota here at RRW
and it will keep you busy reading posts for hours! But, don’t miss this one
(10,000 Somalis to MN in ten years!).
Addendum: I’ve gotta try to
remember to always add the latest Somali numbers—right now we are admitting
them at the rate of 750 per month, see here.
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