Posted on 05/07/2012 11:53:14 AM PDT by ColdOne
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse boiled over in 2008 when her boss snatched her head scarf and exposed her hair.
A Jackson County jury on Thursday awarded Susann Bashir $5 million in punitive damages in her discrimination lawsuit, along with $120,000 in lost wages and other actual damages.
The Kansas City Star reported Saturday that the award appears to be the largest jury verdict for a workplace discrimination case in Missouri history.
(Excerpt) Read more at jobs.aol.com ...
but you Christians better now show a cross or you’ll be shot
Better be an automatic appeal on this one. Sounds like a truly psycho jury. I wouldn’t have awarded her five dollars.
She converted to Islam because it was the only religion that came close to wearing a bag over her head.
gag me
I think $5 million is ridiculous but I can’t see any justification for what the manager did.
The boss sounds like a huge jerk, I’d be calling this sexual harassment and assault on top of things. No one has the right to disrobe an employee - and as the headscarf was a piece of clothing, this was a forced disrobing with the intent to humiliate and intimidate. The fact that he wasn’t fired from AT&T for this act - alone - means that AT&T needed some monitary incentive to force managment to behave in a civilized manner.
Perhaps $5 Million will cause AT&T to re-visit their policies on bosses assaulting employees.
The fact that she was Muslim has no bearing. If she was undergoing cancer treatment and wore a scarf to hide her bald head - the act is the same in maliciousness. If she were a man and had knocked a few teeth out - she would have been fired for assault. Thus, this was very much an AT&T supported enviroment of management hostility.
Unfortunately, many companies refuse to consider policies in line with what most people expect to be a lesson we all learn in Kindergarten. When this fails, the courts step in.
She just happens to be the ‘lucky’ recipient of a lesson that needed to be taught to a large company.
Do the jurors know where the 5M comes from? What a bunch of morons.
I believe that the state limits the additional restitution to a certain multiple of the damages...thereby giving this muslim idiotess far less money.
However, since she has beenb “exposed” and dishonored, is not not required for her husband and neighbors to stone yer to death?
I believe that the state limits the additional restitution to a certain multiple of the damages...thereby giving this muslim idiotess far less money.
However, since she has beenb “exposed” and dishonored, is not not required for her husband and neighbors to stone yer to death?
Woulda been cheaper and more culturally sensitive to behead her.
Allegedly.
Hot dawg!
Found a new way to fund the Jihad!
“The boss sounds like a huge jerk,”
Boss and employee later split the proceeds.
Sounds like the makings of a great scam.
Her boss and the other Christian employees at AT&T also have First amendment freedom of religion and the right to express their views.
They should also sue her for prohibiting their freedom of speech and religion.
What makes you think that the boss is a man?
“Juries” are a joke. A bunch of out of work clowns always wanting to “send a message”. Morons.
Wow... I'd never thought of that. Now to find a willing manager. For $2.5 Million I'd put up with an awful lot!!
Full of people who are too stupid to figure out how to get out of jury duty.
Lawyer gets 40%. Then come taxes.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.