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JCPenney Store Fires Muslim Woman
WASHINGTON, DC (8/5/96) - CAIR has taken up the case of a Muslim woman fired
by a JCPenney outlet because she refused to remove her religiously-mandated
head scarf. According to the woman, the personnel manager of JCPenney
Tyson's Corner Center, in McLean, Virginia, told her to "clock out now" when
she refused to remove the scarf. The woman also said the manager told her:
"You have to make a decision whether you want to keep this job. You have to
take off your scarf or leave." The personnel manager is reported to have
said he took the action based on J.C. Penney Company, Inc., policy. This
"policy" was reiterated in a meeting between the personnel manager, the
store's general manager, the fired worker, and another Muslim employee. In
that meeting, the general manager allegedly said that if he accommodated the
woman's religious beliefs, he would have to accommodate other faiths. When
he said this, the general manager reportedly made a motion that meeting
participants say indicated a Jewish skullcap, or yarmulke. While the fired
worker was leaving the store, she claims another personnel supervisor asked
her in a mocking tone: "Who told you to wear that (the head scarf)? Did
Mohammad (the Prophet Muhammad) tell you to wear it?" To date, JCPenney
officials have not responded in a manner dictated by the seriousness of the
woman's complaint. A JCPenney corporate attorney said the company did not
regard the incident as being serious enough to warrant any action other than
offering a new job and back pay. "This time, we are not going to settle for
just getting the lady's job back. The 'Islamophobia' that leads to these
types of cases is widespread in personnel departments. Corporate managers
must learn they have to take anti-Muslim discrimination seriously," said
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. Awad added that with more than 200,000
employees and some 20 billion dollars in yearly sales, JCPenney's reaction
to this incident is of great importance.
ACTIONS REQUESTED: This incident was devastating to the fired worker, and
raises broad implications for American Muslim shoppers and potential
employees. Based on the current law, and on past cases of this type, CAIR
has demanded the following as a minimum:
1) a written apology to the fired worker,
2) reinstatement in a JCPenney store, in an environment that would not allow
retaliation of any kind,
3) back wages for the fired worker,
4) reasonable attorney's fees,
5) monetary compensation for emotional distress,
6) clarification of and/or changes to JCPenney policies regarding
religiously-mandated dress; and
7) distribution of these policy changes/clarifications to all store
personnel departments.
Contact JCPenney by phone, fax, letter or email to protest the store
managers' actions and the inaction of corporate representatives. Tell them
they are violating their own "diversity" mission statement: "Each of us is a
one-of-a-kind combination of physical characteristics, personality, gender,
race, religion, skills, and ethnic and cultural background...JCPenney values
diversity, respecting individual differences and appreciating the advantages
our diversity offers." (downloaded from JCPenney's home page:
http://www.jcpenney.com) Recommend sensitivity training for staff.
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