Days Off?

[andrewducker]

Not sure how I feel about this.  A Christian lost his court case where he claims he was sacked for refusing to work Sundays.  His employers moved to a 7-days shift system and required people to work every day of the week (I assume week on/week off).

On the one hand, if they're discriminating equally against Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc. then it's hard to say that they're practising religious discrimination.  And it's not like I actually agree that there's any _rational_ reason for not working on a Sunday.

I suspect I'm feeling the left-over twinge from when working on a Sunday used to be extremely rare.  If, after all, a sect sprang up that forbade working on Wednesdays I wouldn't expect employers to automatically give people the Wednesday off.  And it's not like we're actually a Christian country any more - church attendance is down to 7.5%.

Dammit, it's my Englishness coming to the fore.  Must...suppress....

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Although I'm against that level of employer power. I like the complete lack of religious discrimination. A better response would be full flextime with scheduling preferences based on seniority or performance. However, after hearing all the fundys over hear yammer about all of their nonsense, having a policy that treats Christians, Jews, Pagans, and Buddhists equally in terms of days off is refreshing and positive, albeit by becoming universally oppressive.

[andrewducker]

A better response would be full flextime

Not in most jobs where you need to schedule people on in shifts. I'm in frequent conversation with people around me to do my job. We have some flexitime, but we all have to be in 10-12 and 2:30-3:30, so that we get enough crossover to get the job done...