Re: NEVER HIRE A MUSLIM REASON #85: AT&T ordered to pay Muslim baghead $5 million dollars for religious discrimination

[MJ]

The REAL problem here is the unconstitutional EEOC and similar nonsense.

Regard$,
--MJ

"If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action" -- Ludwig von Mises in "Planning for Freedom."




At 01:10 PM 5/5/2012, you wrote:

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NEVER HIRE A MUSLIM REASON #85: AT&T ordered to pay Muslim baghead $5 million dollars for religious discrimination

by barenakedislam

Kansas City woman who converted from Christianity to Islam has been awarded $5 million in punitive damages by a jury who found the telecommunications giantAT&T created a "hostile work environment" after her conversion, according to a judge's order issued Friday.

REUTERS (H/T Bill) Susan Bashir, a 41-year-old married mother, sued AT&T unit Southwestern Bell for what she said was a pattern of offensive and discriminatory conduct by her supervisors that began when she converted to Islam in 2005, six years after she started working for the company as a network technician.

After Bashir started wearing a religious head scarf known as a hijab, and attending Friday mosque services, her managers and co-workers called her names including "terrorist," and told her she was going to hell, said her attorney Amy Coopman.

A manager repeatedly told her to remove her hijab, insulted her for wearing it, and once physically grabbed Bashir and tried to rip the hijab off her head, according to the suit.

Bashir complained to human resources and then filed a formal complaint alleging discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and was subsequently fired in 2010. Though Bashir's complaint alleged she was fired in a retaliatory action by AT&T, the jury did not agree, and no damages were awarded on that charge.

After several days of hearing testimony and deliberation, a jury in Jackson County Circuit Court on Thursday ordered AT&T to pay $5 million in punitive damages on top of $120,000 in actual damages.

AT&T spokesman Marty Richter said the company would appeal.

barenakedislam | May 4, 2012 at 10:54 pm | Categories: Islam in America | URL: http://wp.me/p276zM-Hzs

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