GM beats workers' lawsuit over religious holidays, for now

Source: Reuters

GM beats workers' lawsuit over religious holidays, for now
Reuters
22 minutes ago
By Daniel Wiessner

Reuters) - General Motors Co has won dismissal of a class action lawsuit by two employees in Texas who say the top U.S. automaker violated federal law in denying them unpaid time off on religious holy days.

U.S. District Judge Terry Means in Fort Worth, Texas on Wednesday said James Robinson III, a Seventh-day Sabbatarian, and Chris Scruggs, a Messianic Jew, failed to show they could adequately represent a proposed class of every GM employee who could potentially request an unpaid religious day off.

"Determining individual class members would require the court to wade through thousands of leave requests and evaluate ... whether the request was based on religion," Means wrote.

The judge, however, gave the GM workers a chance to file an amended lawsuit that makes more specific claims.


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