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A Lowe's Home Center in East Tennessee is being sued for discrimination because it required an employee who is Baptist to work on Sundays, although he said he held sincere religious beliefs against working on the Sabbath.
The federal lawsuit, filed Monday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said employee Mark Buehler submitted two written requests for a religious accommodation not to be scheduled for work on Sunday at the Morristown, Tenn., store.
A Lowe's Home Center in East Tennessee is being sued for discrimination because it required an employee who is Baptist to work on Sundays, although he said he held sincere religious beliefs against working on the Sabbath.
Surely he gets at least one day off in seven. He can make that his sabbath.
The pertinent issue here is that when Lowes hires a person, it is in their contract of employment that they understand they will be required to work some weekends. This man not only converted after being hired by Lowes, he also was well aware that this job required some weekends. The employee broke the contract, not Lowes. If the guy doesn't want to work when he's supposed to and when HE AGREED to work, there are a lot of other people who would gratefully take his job right now.
We had a lot of employees say they couldn't work the 'Sabbath' at my old job (oddly, it's Lowe's biggest rival ) who were lying just to get a weekend day off. I was so sick and tired of working every weekend because of people who demanded Sunday or Saturday off (or both, for that matter) because of 'religious' reasons. We 'non religious' people should have the same opportunity to request a weekend day off as anyone else.
We had a lot of employees say they couldn't work the 'Sabbath' at my old job (oddly, it's Lowe's biggest rival ) who were lying just to get a weekend day off. I was so sick and tired of working every weekend because of people who demanded Sunday or Saturday off (or both, for that matter) because of 'religious' reasons. We 'non religious' people should have the same opportunity to request a weekend day off as anyone else.
For religious reasons, they don't have to have any particular day off. Tuesday is as good as any other day.
"The EEOC argues that while Lowe's had a policy through which employees could ask for religious accommodations, its work place policies and practices generally led to a refusal of such requests."
pretty clear why the lawsuit exists. has nothing to do with when he converted. has everything to do with the way the company handles those requests.
A Lowe's Home Center in East Tennessee is being sued for discrimination because it required an employee who is Baptist to work on Sundays, although he said he held sincere religious beliefs against working on the Sabbath.
The federal lawsuit, filed Monday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said employee Mark Buehler submitted two written requests for a religious accommodation not to be scheduled for work on Sunday at the Morristown, Tenn., store.
In my opinion, he should quit his job with Lowes and find one that allows him to have Sunday's off. If he's a child of God, God will allow him to find another job where he can still worship Him on Sunday, even though technically we should be worshipping God every day. I am a baptist too.
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) who were lying just to get a weekend day off. I was so sick and tired of working every weekend because of people who demanded Sunday or Saturday off (or both, for that matter) because of 'religious' reasons. We 'non religious' people should have the same opportunity to request a weekend day off as anyone else.
