London – An observant jewish woman was awarded £16,000 by an employment tribunal after successfully challenging a company that refused to consider her job application after she said she could not work Saturdays because she observed Shabbat.
Aurelie Fhima, a 23-yearold from Manchester sent her résumé to a Birmingham company, Travel Jigsaw, and was granted an interview, but when she said she could not work Saturdays she was told by letter that “after careful consideration we cannot offer you a position at this time.” The company added that it was “still looking for people who were flexible enough to work on Saturdays.”
She asked the company to review its decision and, when it refused, decided to take legal action on the grounds that it was indirect discrimination on the grounds of religion.
Judges on the tribunal agreed with her, and awarded her just under £8,000 for loss of earnings, £7,500 for injury to her feelings and £1,200 for legal fees.
The company said working shifts were from 7 to 11 am Monday to Saturdays but that employees always had two days off a week.
Fhima challenged the decision to turn down her application, but the company claimed she had not been truthful over her ability to work Saturdays in their initial telephone interview, only confessing to this omission during their faceto- face interview.
This was strongly denied by Fhima who counter claimed that the way the company behaved was “devastating.”
A Jigsaw spokesman said the company was extremely disappointed by the judgment, saying it employs “an extremely diverse workforce with colleagues representing 65 nationalities.”
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Now. Let us see a Christian say Sunday is his/her day of rest and see where a similar case might take her. Under similar circumstances, of course.
Just sayin’….
What is even more moving here, aside from the “pain and suffering” (to use the legal term) of this women, persecuted “only for being a Jew,” is the fact that in this day and age in America, after all they have suffered at the hands of the Goy world, there are still Jews who are so poor that they have to work for a living.
She needs to dtsy home,in respect to that hate “God”,Yahweh !
If company offered premium pay such as time and a half or double time for working Saturday no doubt this “putzette” would have jumped on that like a dung beetle on an elephant turd
Now. Let us see a Christian say Sunday is his/her day of rest and see where a similar case might take her. Under similar circumstances, of course.
Just sayin’….
What is even more moving here, aside from the “pain and suffering” (to use the legal term) of this women, persecuted “only for being a Jew,” is the fact that in this day and age in America, after all they have suffered at the hands of the Goy world, there are still Jews who are so poor that they have to work for a living.
She needs to dtsy home,in respect to that hate “God”,Yahweh !
If company offered premium pay such as time and a half or double time for working Saturday no doubt this “putzette” would have jumped on that like a dung beetle on an elephant turd