I'm pretty sure anyone can refuse to work any time.

Relatively Obscure: I'm pretty sure anyone can refuse to work any time.

yeah, but it's a question of whether you can be fired for it.

"christian" is a large enough class of people that it is pretty easy to show that plenty of people who identify as "christian" will work on sunday, and who don't seem to believe that not working on sunday is a central belief.

Mormons are pretty explicitly not supposed to work on sunday, or transact business of any kind if they can avoid it. There are vague rules about sewing on sunday. The test that is applied is the "ox in a mire" test. If your ox is stuck in a mire, and you don't go get it out, it'll die. It's an emergency. There are exemptions for caring for the ill or infirm, etc.

But it's kinda like how methodists don't recognize each other at the liquor store. A lot of mormons end up doing minor grocery shopping on sunday - just whatever they needed for dinner that they forgot on saturday. What i find odd is that they usually do this shopping in their sunday best. Guys in suits picking up a pint of sour cream, etc.

Thing is, a lot of mormons work on sunday. Generally because they have a crappy job where you can't get out of it. I wonder if this has something to do with the mormon brand of prosperity doctrine, which has only really existed for the last 30-40 years. The well-off don't have to have a shiat job that requires weekend work.

So i don't know if mormons would fare any better in an anti-discrimination case like this.

Contrary to popular belief, The Sabbath is actually on Saturday. You know, the SEVENTH DAY of the week.

If you can't regularly fulfill the duties and obligations to your job due to religious beliefs, find another one or choose a different career. Or just attention whore at how oppressed you are

tenpoundsofcheese: JasonGriffee: Contrary to popular belief, The Sabbath is actually on Saturday. You know, the SEVENTH DAY of the week.

so you think that God started his work week on Sunday to create Heaven and Earth?

Well, I'm sure he had to get coffee and read his email... maybe scan the main page of Fark

/no one likes to just jump into it first thing

Fart_Machine: To be fair at least according to her claim she did #2.

Relatively Obscure: I'm pretty sure anyone can refuse to work any time.

In a free country, you have the right to not work at all. You just don't have the right to a paycheck.

Bermuda59: Not work on Sundays? That explains the Jacksonville Jaguars Pittsburgh Steelers.

/FTFY

Peki: Looks like I might be the only one, but I do have a problem with this. As long as reasonable accommodations can be made, and according TFA, they could, the woman should be allowed to work. What bugs me is that I've been noticing more and more that employers are going after people like this "just because." If you require some kind of special treatment, either due to your religion or health or something else, it seems that employers specifically will target and ignore your requests just to force you to go around them, and then they have justification to write you up. I cant tell you how many times I heard of students getting shifts when they have class, or parents scheduled beyond when their kids gt home from school, even though in the past there was never a problem and the employer had ample notice and was willing to make allowances.

It's down right dickish but it's not illegal to not accomodate to their schedule.

She didn't even get fired, she decided to quit AND THEN sue her former employer. Just read the rest of the idiocy involved in this case:


Campaigners said the ruling showed that Christians are being treated less favourably than people from other religions, such as Muslims, Jews and Sikhs. They pointed to cases where the courts offered protection to other religions even when only a minority of adherents were affected.

In 2008 Sarika Watkins-Singh, then 14, successfully claimed she was a victim of unlawful discrimination because she had been excluded from school in Aberdare, south Wales, for breaking a jewellery ban by refusing to remove a "kara" bangle which she said was central to her faith.

But in her case the court did not examine how many Sikhs wanted to wear similar items of jewellery.

The judgment in Miss Mba's case will fuel concerns that judges are promoting secularism. A report from the cross-party Christians in Parliament group warned earlier this year that there was a lack of religious literacy among judges, politicians and officials.

Andrea Williams, director of Christian Concern, said of the latest ruling: "The court in this case created an unrealistic test which means that people like Celestina who wish to respect the Sabbath will be forced out of the workplace.

"The court seems to be requiring a significant number of adherents of the Christian faith to observe a particular practice before the court is willing to accept and protect the practice.

"In the past year we have seen mandatory tests of faith in relation to the wearing of crosses by Christians, belief about marriage between a man and a woman and now observing the Sabbath when in all cases reasonable accommodation could have been made.

"Such tests do not appear to be similarly applied to Muslims who are permitted to wear the hijab and observe prayers and Sikhs with the kara bracelet."

Or to sum it up in graphical form:

Somacandra: Bermuda59: Not work on Sundays? That explains the Jacksonville Jaguars Pittsburgh Steelers.

/FTFY

Too soon.

In 1994, when Sunday trading in England was liberalised shopworkers were given a guarantee that working would be strictly voluntary, but the guarantee did not apply to people in other sectors.

The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations, published in 2003, say employers must justify Sunday working as a "legitimate business need" and does not give a blanket right to Christians not to work.

I think running a care home is a pretty good reason to give when scheduling people to work on Sundays.

Asa Phelps: The well-off don't have to have a shiat job that requires weekend work.

I want you to repeat that the next time you need to see an ER doctor on a Sunday.

tenpoundsofcheese: JasonGriffee: Contrary to popular belief, The Sabbath is actually on Saturday. You know, the SEVENTH DAY of the week.

Oh look, another person who knows nothing about religion.

Considering that the Jewish faith was around long before the Christian faith...yeah, the Sabbath is actually Saturday dumbass.