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KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts) Sun Jun 7, 2020, 12:48 PM Jun 2020

Former Trump Hotel Housekeeper Sues Over Alleged Religious Discrimination

Former Trump Hotel Housekeeper Sues Over Alleged Religious Discrimination
By Joe Schneider / Bloomberg
June 3, 2020

Read it here: https://time.com/5847248/trump-hotel-maid-fired-refusing-working-church-sundays/

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A former housekeeper at President Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel claims she was fired for refusing to work Sundays so she could attend church.

Sonia Perez, 56, said she worked at Trump International Hotel from 2010 to 2015 without incident, with Sundays off so she could attend religious services at her non-denominational Christian church. But after the employees unionized in 2018, Perez says in a lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Las Vegas federal court, her shift was changed to include Sundays.

Perez refused to come to work on Sundays “because of her sincerely held religious belief,” according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit comes a day after protesters were forcibly cleared from in front of the White House by police so Trump could walk to a nearby church and hold up a Bible for photographers.

Well, that sort of throws him into a quandary! What will his evangelicals say about this one? He insists people have the freedom to go to church despite a global pandemic, yet his employees can't go to church due to that thing called work.

KY............

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Former Trump Hotel Housekeeper Sues Over Alleged Religious Discrimination (Original Post) KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2020 OP

I think in this case the Union is made to look like the bad guy Wawannabe Jun 2020 #1

Something smells. Wellstone ruled Jun 2020 #2

"Sincerely held religious beliefs" Isn't that what the USSC said was necessary in order to in2herbs Jun 2020 #3

Wawannabe

(5,666 posts)

1. I think in this case the Union is made to look like the bad guy

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2020, 12:58 PM

Jun 2020

tRump would likely NOT want his hotel Union so he would have wanted it to stay the other way and she would have gone to church like normal.

IDK wtf is wrong with this Union. It seems WAY out of the norm to not let a person have this right.

I smell a rat in this story actually. Looks like to me someone trying to make the Unions look bad.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

2. Something smells.

Reply to Wawannabe (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 7, 2020, 01:12 PM

Jun 2020

Always did work a rounds for those in our Union for those whom had Religious Beliefs that required no Saturday's or Sunday's work. As well as Their Special Holidays.

in2herbs

(2,945 posts)

3. "Sincerely held religious beliefs" Isn't that what the USSC said was necessary in order to

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2020, 01:14 PM

Jun 2020

give Hobby Lobby a win? Works both ways. I'm glad she's suing.

BTW: I know we are protesting police brutality, but shouldn't we be letting the conservatives on the USSC know that we are coming for them next? After all, none of the policy changes being discussed/implemented will be worth anything if the present members of the USSC rule on the constitutionality of the changes.

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