easyt65
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The Publix Supermarket Chain has a strict employee grooming requirements employees must adhere to. The employee in this story had already been hired but had not started work yet...and then he showed up with dreadlocks, in violation of the chain's grooming requirements / restrictions.
The answer to my question is 'Rastafarian'.
- "The employee is a practicing Rastafarian, a religion in which subscribers use dreadlocks to distinguish themselves from non-Rastas."
The employee offered to wear his hair up in a hat, but management declined his proposed compromise. So now the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Publix Supermarket chain.
SO THE 'MEAT' OF THE DISCUSSION IS THIS:
WHERE DOES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM / LIBERTY BEGIN AND END IN CASES INVOLVING BUSINESSES?
American citizens have a right to 'Religious Freedom'; yet...
In one case American business owners were sued for refusing to provide a service due to their religious beliefs.
-- Religious Freedom / Rights / Belief LOSES out.
In this case a business is being sued for discriminating against a person's religious beliefs, being told they can not have any company policies / rules that may go against the religious beliefs of the employees they hire.
- Religious Freedom / Rights / Beliefs WIN out.
(*** One could argue that Publix erred when they hired the individual before making it clear and getting him to acknowledge and agree to comply with the company's grooming requirements ... but I would be willing to bet that if the employee had been denied a job with Publix over his dreadlocks we would still be seeing a lawsuit over discrimination of his religious beliefs.)
Supermarket chain sued for religious discrimination for requiring employee to cut dreadlocks
The answer to my question is 'Rastafarian'.
- "The employee is a practicing Rastafarian, a religion in which subscribers use dreadlocks to distinguish themselves from non-Rastas."
The employee offered to wear his hair up in a hat, but management declined his proposed compromise. So now the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Publix Supermarket chain.
SO THE 'MEAT' OF THE DISCUSSION IS THIS:
WHERE DOES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM / LIBERTY BEGIN AND END IN CASES INVOLVING BUSINESSES?
American citizens have a right to 'Religious Freedom'; yet...
In one case American business owners were sued for refusing to provide a service due to their religious beliefs.
-- Religious Freedom / Rights / Belief LOSES out.
In this case a business is being sued for discriminating against a person's religious beliefs, being told they can not have any company policies / rules that may go against the religious beliefs of the employees they hire.
- Religious Freedom / Rights / Beliefs WIN out.
(*** One could argue that Publix erred when they hired the individual before making it clear and getting him to acknowledge and agree to comply with the company's grooming requirements ... but I would be willing to bet that if the employee had been denied a job with Publix over his dreadlocks we would still be seeing a lawsuit over discrimination of his religious beliefs.)
Supermarket chain sued for religious discrimination for requiring employee to cut dreadlocks