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Muslim flight attendant sues ExpressJet over suspensionhttp://www.seattletimes.com/business/muslim-flight-attendant-sues-expressjet-over-suspension/
Updated August 9, 2016 at 9:12 am | The Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) A Muslim flight attendant has sued ExpressJet, accusing the airline of wrongly suspending her because she refused to serve alcohol to passengers.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations Michigan chapter announced Tuesday it filed the lawsuit last week on behalf of Charee Stanley, a Detroit-based flight attendant for the airline headquartered in Atlanta.
The federal court case follows a discrimination complaint filed last year with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which dismissed it without determining whether the airline violated the law.
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Skittles
(153,226 posts)if you cannot perform your job duties, find another line of work
bonemachine
(757 posts)between being a steward(ess) and being a pharmacist...
Skittles
(153,226 posts)she is free to peruse them
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I am sorry but do the job you voluntarily applied for.
bonemachine
(757 posts)The airline had agreed to give Stanley a religious accommodation, saying she could work out an arrangement with the other flight attendant on duty so they could serve alcohol instead. She was suspended only after a colleague complained, said Lena Masri, an attorney with the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/09/08/muslim-expressjet-alcohol-flight-attendant/71865844/
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Very telling that the EEOC dismissed her complaint.
bonemachine
(757 posts)You can tell she's lying about it because she's a Muslim...
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)If your religion puts weight on my back because you can't/won't/refuse to do the job you're hired for, you fucking better believe I'm going to complain about it.
lapfog_1
(29,228 posts)it's not like someone is asking her to drink alcohol. Only serve it to other people that don't share her religious views. Just like asking the local bakery to make a cake for a gay wedding.
bonemachine
(757 posts)if you realized that the airline had agreed to accommodate her when they hired her?
lapfog_1
(29,228 posts)employees often have changing work assignments. And they never should have agreed to accommodate her in the first place.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)"Stanley, 40, began working for ExpressJet nearly three years ago. She later converted to Islam and only learned earlier this year that her faith prohibits her both from serving alcohol and consuming it. She approached a supervisor on June 1, Masri said, and was told to work out an arrangement with other flight attendants.
"We know that this arrangement has worked beautifully and without incident and that it hasn't caused any undue burden on the airline," Masri said.
But she said a co-worker filed a complaint on Aug. 2, saying Stanley was not fulfilling her duties."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/07/muslim-flight-attendant-suspended/71852754/
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I hope this is dropped quick.
The airline agreed to accommodate her when they hired her.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)There are a lot of religions in the world and the last thing we need to accommodating every person in every religion. When would the work get done. You must see this could be a problem I hope. The colleague had every right to complain. How unfair.
bonemachine
(757 posts)The airline had agreed to give Stanley a religious accommodation, saying she could work out an arrangement with the other flight attendant on duty so they could serve alcohol instead. She was suspended only after a colleague complained, said Lena Masri, an attorney with the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/09/08/muslim-expressjet-alcohol-flight-attendant/71865844/
kiva
(4,373 posts)for her, the airline said she could negotiate with other flight attendant for them to do her job - and make no mistake, that's exactly what she was asking them to do.
She needs to find a job that will not require her to do anything that conflicts with her religion.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)She was unable to work out out an agreeable solution with the other attendants on duty; the agreement with the airline appears to be contingent on that.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Give her a bunch of money, make her go away or give her a job where serving alcohol is not a PRIMARY task.
It is bullcrap that she can play the sky daddy card to shirk her responsibilities, offloading them on others.
Or how about this as a solution - give 25% of her pay to anyone else on her crew who has to cover her tasks?
DLevine
(1,788 posts)TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)I can see why it would be problematic to have someone who refused to serve alcohol.
Maybe she can move up to a larger airline where she will refuse to serve ham sandwiches! She doesn't have to worry about that on those little puddle jumper flights.