My Job

Workplace Religious Discrimination Complaints Double Over 10 Years

If I own a company and I hire people to work for me, it is my job. It does not belong to the employee. It does not belong to the government, it is my job. If I want to have everyone work next Tuesday then that should be up to me to determine, not the government. If I want everyone to be off on Christmas Day and work on Easter Day then that should be up to me, not some judge.

We wonder why companies move to other states or other companies. We wonder why companies won’t hire anyone even if they are sitting on a pile of cash. We wonder why businessmen say that the government interferes too much with business. Then we permit lawsuits for religious discrimination. The lawyers for these lawsuits say the issue is so complicated that each case has to be handled individually. How can the average owner of a dry cleaning business be expected to know how to avoid religious discrimination if lawyers are not even sure of the law? Yet these lawsuits and the fear of lawsuits cost companies millions of dollars wasted that could go to making them more competitive or more profitable.

If a barbershop wants to hire all Muslims to cut hair that should be their right. If a grocery store expects everyone to work Christmas Day, then they should be permitted to do that. If a company does not want women to wear a headscarf at work then that should be up to the company to set their dress code. If I don’t want my employees to wear beards then Amish need not apply. Private business is just that, private. The government should not interfere with private decisions taken by employers about who they hire, who they fire, how they schedule, who they train, that’s the view from the Hysterical Right Wing.