Loading ...I’m all for religious tolerance and am against discrimination in the workplace, but when you decide to sue your former employer because they asked you to do a common task that’s against your beliefs, perhaps you shouldn’t have taken the job in the first place?
This is another one of those cases where common sense seems to be left by the wayside as a person’s sense of entitlement takes over. The guy in the story took a job that involves transporting very goods, and it turns out that some of those goods just so happen to be alcoholic beverages. I think it’s up to the employee to find out if the job they take involves anything that’s against their beliefs, not the employer. In fact, in the United States, you can get into quite a bit of trouble if you ask about a potential employee’s beliefs in an interview.
Just because you have certain beliefs that prohibit you from doing certain tasks at a job, doesn’t mean you are entitled to getting out of those tasks without consequence. That’s like a vegetarian suing McDonalds because they had to cook hamburgers. You’re free to believe in whatever you’d like. You’re also free to find a job that doesn’t make you bend or break any of those beliefs.
File that under my religion forbids me from working… now where’s my paycheck.
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