Wisconsin manufacturer fires seven Muslim employees over unscheduled prayer breaks
MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin manufacturer says it has fired seven Muslim employees for continuing to take unscheduled prayer breaks. More than 50 Somali immigrant Muslims at Ariens Co. recently protested the company’s enforcement of a policy of two 10-minute breaks per work shift — without accommodations for unscheduled prayer time. The 53 employees wanted the […]
Muslims Fired by Wisconsin Firm for Unscheduled Prayer Breaks
TEHRAN (FNA)- Seven Muslims have been fired by a Wisconsin company amid a prayer-break dispute. Muslim employees took unscheduled prayer breaks after the company ceased accommodating work stoppages that allowed workers to pray in accordance with their faith. Ariens Co., a lawn mower and snowblower manufacturer in Brillion, Wisconsin, fired its Somali Muslim employees over […]
CAIR Calls on Wisconsin Firm Ariens to Allow Prayers Pending Resolution of Accommodation Issue
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on a Wisconsin-based manufacturer to allow Muslim workers to pray while at work using a previous policy pending a resolution of a dispute over religious accommodation triggered by a change in that […]