Interview with a Jovo

[Tonus]

This put the cleaning manager under quite some strain as we need cleaners to fill these posts (there is actually a shortage of good cleaners in our local job market apparently), but this was causing bother as we have several other cleaners who'd love to be exempt From working Sunday's but who have also been told they must work.

You feel hypocrisy creeping up because your actions were by definition intolerant and considered religious persecution.

The employer would be within his rights to accommodate the woman's desire to avoid working Sundays. But the bolded portion indicates that there is a practical reason for turning her down: to make an exception for her would unfairly burden the other workers, who were seeking to get more Sundays off. If that's a particular concern for the company, then adding a worker who would specifically NOT address that problem would likely create morale issues, in addition to, you know... not solving the problem.

And that's without considering why she would ask for special treatment as a condition of her employment in the first place.