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Dishwasher awarded $21.5M for being forced to work on Sundays
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| January 16, 2019
| Chris Perez
Posted on 01/17/2019 4:10:20 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: Peter ODonnell
Punitive damages will be reduced on appeal
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posted on
01/17/2019 4:33:46 PM PST
by
maro
(MAGA!)
To: Lurking Libertarian
I don’t give a crap what moslems do on Friday!
To: C210N
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posted on
01/17/2019 4:34:22 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: C210N
Yeah but can your dishwasher file a suit? If not, then I doubt you have anything to worry about. Just don’t allow any lawyers into your house, especially the kitchen. 8>)
To: Mikemurphy
I dont give a crap what moslems do on Friday!You may not, but a judge and jury just might...
To: lowbridge
Couldn’t they have just fired her for insubordination? She’s an at will employee.
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posted on
01/17/2019 4:38:19 PM PST
by
Pearls Before Swine
( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
To: Mikemurphy
Or you can get a different job without Sunday hours and learn to mind your own business?
To: lowbridge
Haitian plaintiff. Let me guess - majority or all-black jury.
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posted on
01/17/2019 4:40:30 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: lowbridge
In my religion, Wednesday is our Sabbath day.
I haven’t managed to get Wednesdays off yet.
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posted on
01/17/2019 4:40:45 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: lowbridge
Bake the cake
Wash the dish
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posted on
01/17/2019 4:42:54 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: Capt. Tom
The “satanists” and “pastafarians” we hear about in court are always ATHEISTS, theirs is not a sincerely held religious belief and it is WRONG to require that a Christian be 100% observant in all avenues of his or her life to claim “privilege” to act on religious belief.
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posted on
01/17/2019 4:44:59 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: lowbridge
"To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? But you yourselves wrong and defraudeven your own brothers!" 1 Corinthians 6:7-8.
Insurance rates increase and are passed onto the consumers, who many are bothers and sisters in Christ, he-he.
"...and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit" Exodus 23:3.
If she loves God and uses the "no work" excuse on Sundays, I hope she refuses to go to the Emergency room that day. Plenty of people who love God WORK in hospitals on "Sunday".
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posted on
01/17/2019 4:50:35 PM PST
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: MeganC
Yep.
If someone tells you that, for religious reasons they will not work on Sunday, (or Saturday or whatever their rest/worship day is) and you arrange to accommodate them you must continue to do so.
You have accepted their terms.
Had an employee who wore a beard for religious reasons, when the new owner came in he was told he would have to shave.
I checked all the rules, federal and state and told them that they would just have to live with his wearing a beard.
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posted on
01/17/2019 4:52:58 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
To: Lurking Libertarian
> You realize this precedent will enable Moslems to sue for being forced to work on Friday, don’t you? <
But it’s more than just that. Devout Muslims are expected to pray five times a day, every day. So Mr. Employer, you had better build that into the work schedule...unless you want to get sued.
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posted on
01/17/2019 4:53:34 PM PST
by
Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: lowbridge
Gee, I wonder if I can get a settlement from those Sundays I worked as a dishwasher - 30 years ago..
To: lowbridge
The lawyer must have put on a virtuoso performance; there’s no way this holds up under appeal.
If her religious beliefs were so important that she couldn’t do the job, she should have found work more compatible with her beliefs. $20 mil is an obscene payout.
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posted on
01/17/2019 5:00:51 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Nobody is coming to save the day)
To: DiogenesLamp
Agreed. 21.5 is absurd. It sounds as if an award is due, but 21mil ?
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posted on
01/17/2019 5:00:57 PM PST
by
chiller
(Dem's ideals are beautiful...they just never work in a real world. Feel good, OR do the right thing.)
To: lowbridge
Was it part of her hiring contract that she may have to work Sundays is the question.
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posted on
01/17/2019 5:05:43 PM PST
by
Eagles6
To: VanDeKoik
$21 million to offend a Christian on a Sunday. Sukitup buttercup!!It is just beginning.Close Sundays !! We are offended!!
To: chiller
The lady wanted $50 million for the mental "trauma" in the first place.
Will most likely not even get $1 million (After fees/taxes) due to State caps, however, her intent was purely for greed, not piety (1964 Civil Rights Act is Biblical?). Heck Christ HUMBLED Himself to do good deeds/work during the Sabbath. The same with religious health care providers who do not have that option (Exempt from certain legislative conditions due to the nature of their profession).
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posted on
01/17/2019 5:11:28 PM PST
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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