http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsb...-pork.html
This is a story in the news from the UK a few days ago. Muslim checkout staff have requested and been allowed to refrain from serving pork or alcohol to customers.
Any opinions? Most have been very much opposed to this. I'm of the personal opinion that if you sign up to do a specific job, then you shouldn't then turn around and say you won't do aspects of that job beacuse of your religious beliefs. An employer should be accomodating if it can, and say give them a different taks if one is available, but not put customers out.
Then there is also the problem of deciding what is a genuine religious belief that you are entitled to uphold. I could invent a religion where I must refrain from working outside of the hours of 9-5.
This is a story in the news from the UK a few days ago. Muslim checkout staff have requested and been allowed to refrain from serving pork or alcohol to customers.
Any opinions? Most have been very much opposed to this. I'm of the personal opinion that if you sign up to do a specific job, then you shouldn't then turn around and say you won't do aspects of that job beacuse of your religious beliefs. An employer should be accomodating if it can, and say give them a different taks if one is available, but not put customers out.
Then there is also the problem of deciding what is a genuine religious belief that you are entitled to uphold. I could invent a religion where I must refrain from working outside of the hours of 9-5.
