QuoteBias suits settled with Gold'n Plump, job agency
Muslim workers receive $1.35 million under a religious discrimination settlement.
Last update: March 31, 2009 - 11:00 PM
A federal judge gave approval for Gold'n Plump Inc. and an employment agency to pay $1.35 million to settle lawsuits alleging religious discrimination against Muslims at a chicken processing plant in Cold Spring, Minn.
The money will go to 128 Somali Muslims who claim that St. Cloud-based Gold'n Plump violated their religious rights by refusing to allow them prayer breaks during work hours, and to another 28 workers who said a St. Paul employment agency, the Work Connection Inc., required them to sign forms acknowledging they would be required to handle pork.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigated the allegations and said it found cause to believe discrimination occurred, according to lawsuits filed last year.
In a settlement approved Tuesday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeanne Graham, Gold'n Plump will add a paid break during the second half of each shift to accommodate Muslim employees who wish to pray. The break is in addition to one early in the shift and lunch breaks required by law.
The Work Connection has agreed to provide offers of employment to the 28 job seekers who were turned away for not signing the "pork form."
The $1.35 million settlement includes $985,000 for legal costs and $365,000 in cash payments to the 156 workers.
CHRIS SERRES
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Noin 2340 taalaa per työläinen. Mamuteollinen kompleksi pärjäsikin sitten hieman paremmin.
Voisin mennä metsuriksi ja sanoa, että wiccalaisuuteni estää luonnon jumalattaren satuttamisen puita kaatamalla.
Ja sitten ihmetellään mikseivät somalialaiset muslimit työllisty!1!!
Samaa palkkaa pitäisi maksaa vaikka aika töissä kuluu rukousmatolla pyllistellen ja sianlihaa syövien syrjimisessä ::)
Onko kukaan nähnyt koskaan yhtään positiivista uutista tai saavutusta erityiseltä kansanryhmältä?
Olikos se suur-siiseli itse, kun aikanaan ihmetteli, miten juuri tämä yksi kansanryhmä joutuu traagisesti ja odottamattomasti syrjinnän kohteeksi?
Onneksi ei kuitenkaan there was a man who says neekeri tai Minnesota maksaisi itsensä vararikkoon.
QuoteThe $1.35 million settlement includes $985,000 for legal costs and $365,000 in cash payments to the 156 workers.
Lohduttavaa, että sikäläinen Ville Hoikkala nettosi keissistä enemmän kuin somalit.