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

[andrewducker]

It is, in my opinion, important for us to respect the value of every indivdual human being.

Even when those values conflict with my own? Should I respect the values of people who believe that black people aren't worth as much as white people?

And allowing people to (for instance) have different working patterns because of their beliefs means that other people have to pick up the slack. Means you're discriminating against people for lacking belief.

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

I didn't say values, I said value. As in, a human being is valuable, not as in we should respect christian values. I'm talking more about the fact that business sees you as a dispensible tool that's fit only to be worked until dropping.