Browsing Tag: Religious Discrimination

Employers almost always change their stance after receiving a letter from the council citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says employers must accommodate workers' religious practice unless it causes the employer undue hardship, Gist said.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Sikhs have reported a rise in bias attacks, both verbal and physical, against them. The backlash that hit Muslims across the country has expanded to include them and their faith as well, with some assuming the sight of a long beard and turbaned head can only mean one thing.

Being a Sikh within the British police force in the 1980s was no easy fate, as Sergeant Kashmira Mann discovered when he became the third turbaned officer to join the Metropolitan Police Service. The Slough man was one of the few ethnic minorities in the force at the time and as a result, bore the brunt of its racism.

Since 2008, Sahaj Singh Khalsa, a Sikh American paramedic from New Mexico, has been discriminated against by his employer because of his religious identity, he has endured disparaging remarks and threats, and even physica assault. SALDEF urges community members to call upon the hospital to accept religious diversity.

Presbyterian Española Hospital, which is accused of religious discrimination against former employee Sahaj Khalsa, chose the wrong Sikh to pick on. Just ask Harold Gomez, the Española man set to stand trial this summer on attempted murder charges for stabbing Sahaj nine times in 2008.

“All I wanted was do my job helping people in my community get the urgent medical care they needed,” said Khalsa. “My Sikh religion did not prevent me from performing that job, but the prejudice of my supervisors did.”

Muslims were in the Twin Towers on 9/11. American Muslims have fought alongside troops in the unjust war in Iraq. But American media seems partial to conducting a modern day Salem Witch Hunt.

Is it that retail employment and management practices are getting worse, retail employees are getting braver, or that the number of employer-employee lawsuits in the U.S. retail industry are not more plentiful, just more widely reported? It's probably a combination of all three conditions that is the driving force...

Despite arriving in the UK almost three years ago, Mr Chopra’s asylum claim was not heard until last year, when a tribunal judge ruled that he was ineligible to remain in the country. An appeal against this decision was unsuccessful. He said: “It’s too much for me. I just sit in my room and cry.”

But in trying to become a chaplain in the U.S. Army, Mr. Stern has gotten tangled in a military bureaucracy that has made exceptions for other beards, but not his.

“I am satisfied that the complainant was treated differently because of his turban and that this was negative differential treatment,” Chadha said.

The Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club, in Manukau City, faced strong criticism from the Sikh community last year after it banned leader Karnail Singh from entering to attend a function held in his honour. The matter was taken to the Human Rights Commission in January, and the parties agreed to mediation

Being a Jedi knight, though, and committed to struggling unceasingly for justice and civilisation, Chris spurns such mouthings as empty, choosing rather to endure to the final triumph, and is planning to sue for discrimination.

"A travesty of Justice against the Sikh community": Mejindarpal Kaur, United Sikhs legal director.