Muslim supermarket workers win discrimination case against Tesco after bosses locked their prayer room and made them sign in/out when they left to pray.
Daily Mail (h/t Maria J) Two Muslim Tesco workers have won a discrimination case against the supermarket after bosses kept their prayer room locked. Abdirisak Aden and Mahamed Hasan, both aged 27, were among a number of devout Muslim employees who had lobbied for a prayer room since 2006.
In 2008 managers agreed to set aside a security office at the distribution depot in Crick, Northamptonshire, as a prayer room for Muslims. But in 2012 bosses set new restrictions on the use of the room which included keeping it locked when it was not in use.
Muslim workers were forced to tell managers when they were going to pray and had to ask for the key and fill in their names in a book every time they entered the room. They also claimed they were forbidden to worship in groups and were only allowed to pray one at a time.
Mr Aden and Mr Hasan took the supermarket giant to a tribunal claiming discrimination on the grounds of their religion. Bedford Employment Tribunal found Tesco was guilty of indirect discrimination and awarded the men an undisclosed sum for ‘injury to their feelings’.
Christopher Fray, equality officer for the Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council (NREC), which represented the men at the hearing which ended on September 3, heralded the ruling.
He said: ‘A large number of Muslims complained that the nature of these prayer guidelines were being used as a way of controlling and monitoring and harassing them.
‘The Bedford Employment Tribunal upheld their claims and found they were discriminated against on the grounds of their religion. ‘This case is a victory not only for Muslims, but for all people who wish to pray while at work. ‘It is one of the first religious discrimination cases that Muslim complainants have won in Britain.’
The tribunal heard both men had made it clear to their bosses that they needed to pray at set times in a clean environment. They claimed that Tesco managers were aware of the difficulties Muslim employees faced while trying to pray with no place allocated for them to do this.
A Tesco spokesman said: ‘We take our responsibilities as an equal opportunities employer very seriously. ‘We are considering the implications of the judge’s ruling and await the full written judgment.’
i have no sympathy for tesco what so ever and i hope more muslims sue them,for a company in the UK to sell halal meat to its christian customers to keep the minority muslims happy is totally absurd,every christian in the country should tell their bosses they want a christian prayer room and pray 5 times a day whilst at work
To huck folder so you think that a person cannot be religous and still sell items that they are not allowed. If this were true then in your word they should starve because they believe have faith in something. They would be out of work as 95 % of food chains in retail sell alcohol.
SINISLAM
This is so ridiculous. Lets lay out some facts
Muslim employees were given special treatment that no other employees have, all because they wanted their own private area to asslift and smell each others asses. They got what they wanted and now, they sue over getting what they wanted.
I wonder if anyone has sued any Muslim business owner or Muslim staff for discrimination? If not, It might be time to change that….
Don’t hire Muslims, don’t hire Muslims, don’t hire Muslims. Is that difficult to understand? Don’t hire Muslims!
ALL muslims are criminals, so that’s their legal justification for so-“discriminating!”
How about you come see me you little white trash bnp cunt. Il show you ass lifting when your mum lifts it so I can fuck her u stupid white piece of shit. FUK YOU WHITE CUNTS
So says the raghead living off taxpayers in the UK. Get out of our countries and go back to your own cesspools of barbarism.
I once worked for a company with less than four muslim employees and one day,a room that was kept empty apart from a desk and several chairs,was seen to be being totally cleared out.The room was used as an interview room on a regular basis.After the clear out it became the prayer room for the muslims……all three of them! If you went in there were prayer mats rolled up and up on a shelf,nothing else in the room,and further interviews carried out in the managers office.One of the muslim employees complained because he wasn’t given Ramadan as an extra holiday and my boss told him”You already have Easter,Christmas Day,etc.,and by rights you should work because you aren’t Christian” Give ’em an inch………..
In the Qur’an and hadiths, it clearly says they don’t have to pray if circumstances (i.e: living and working in infidel countries) forestall it; similarly, they can have other muslims say their prayers FOR them, if they can’t show up at the mosque.
And – what sort of feel-good corporate PC stooges would ever Submit and give them their own prayer room in the first place?! That’s just asking to be sued LOL!
Take their Fuckin pray room back or build me a games room so I can waste work time to Tesco!!!!!
When will then learn not to hire a muslim? Some people have to learn by their own mistakes and that is costly. Take the advice here and do not hire a muslim. I am at the point of telling fools who hire a muslim that you deserve the law suit you get.
“’This case is a victory not only for Muslims, but for all people who wish to pray while at work” – Who else but a Mohammedan would expect this concession? Anybody else would be told to pray in their lunch break.
These parasitic ingrates just chip away and chip away until baby gets its bottle.Baby needs a smack!
funky, it’s easy to prevent this nonsense. Don’t hire them in the first place.
Well maybe everyone else there should “get religion” and have unlimited paid breaks with their pals, too. i had a job where non-smokers started insisting on taking “cigarette breaks” because we were fed up with working our full shifts while the smokers kept running outside for a nicotine fix. we basically said everybody gets extra beaks or we’ll go to HQ and nobody will get them. here tesco says ALL employees can pray at work. i think the non-mohammedans should start cashing in on those “prayer breaks” too! whose to tell them their religion DOESN’T call for it????
Who’s sorry now? High-mindedness doesn’t work when you deal with a supremacist. Their goal is to DESTROY you after they ENSLAVE you.
Moslems HATE ‘others’ because it is their DUTY to hate us. Every time they pray, it is to remind them how much they HATE us and are SUPERIOR to us.
Islamic pray indoctrinates its brainwashed disciples to make jihad against the disbelievers.
‘Fight the disbelievers who are NEAR YOU.’ – Koran
The ‘near’ enemy is us.
why should anyone be paid to pray? that’s why they must sign out and in
Oh noes you didn’t just insult Headbangers, i.e. metal heads from the 80’s….
First mistake. Agreeing to have a “prayer room”.
First mistake was hiring them.
How many hours or part of hours can a company lose but still have to pay for before it is a form of religious theft. Whaddya wanna bet the companys action was the result of longer and longer “prayer times” ? What the judge said was you must allow these people to absent themselves from their duties for a nebulous amount of time, at their demand, every day.
If you still demand an hours work for an hours pay, you are bound to be sued again.
Thanks Judge, you tapioca brained, nincompiddle ! You have just added substantially to the companys cost of doing business.
Thanks BNI! And thanks to the arselifters too for providing me a great idea for another arseliftr tune, a blues tune perhaps; possible title “NEVER EVER HIRE AN ARSELIFTER”. ..And why the hell did they hire them to begin with, much less supplying them with a special place reserved especially for lifting their arses?!…..Muslime prayer place should have been on the parking lot outside, if anywhere at all!!
Dear BNI:
Once again a muzslime whines… and it is not about discrimination; IT IS ABOUT WANTING SPECIAL TREATMENT AND PRIVELIGES that other employees don’t have. This shows muzslime to be sewage infested maggot crap who can only function if they feel superior to non-muslims.
Oh how horrible! A room when not in use at a business is locked! Oh how horrible muzslimes are not allowed to leave in groups to their prayer room! Oh how horrible the korHAM believers have to “sign in and out” before going to their prayer room.
OH JUST SHUT THE HELL UP YOU FILTHY PIG-DICKS!!!
Dear muzswine… please consider my exxperiences and let me know if YOU THINK I have been treated badly for what happened to me at places of my employment.
I present myself Arjay… a DISCRIMINATED AGAINST VICTIM if one follows these muzswine’s views.
When certain areas of one workplace were not in use we had to keep the door locked. Why? Well, a room that was a “lounge” could be use for anything… some staff took catnaps, a few (including a part-time pastor who worked with us as an extra job) would go their and quietly read their Bible. Others would use their break to read the latest romance novel or newspaper. Some responded to cell phone calls and any number of other things during this time.
Then there was the kitchenette where meals were eaten. Locked when not in use. Some staff ate meals (Jewish staff member ate a lunch that was brought in- and prepared kosher…. she only did this certain times a year). Catholic staffers did not eat meat with their lunches in this room during Lenten season. Another part-time kid would play hand-held video games while in there.
The coffee bar area was locked and put up after a certain time of day.
Why all the “locks?”
The public would sneak in and cause problems. A man would come in every morning and go to the coffee bar AND THE PRICK WOULD FILL UP HIS THERMOS BEFORE WALKING OUT AND ON HIS WAY. WTF$#?%?? Yes, the dick had the gall to do that.
Homeless people were going into the lounge and pissing on the furniture. Then if some group rented the community room/hall… then the kitchen privileges were an extra charge. This was business. You want a kitchen… pay more for it. If NOT, then we lock the kitchen, cause if not… YES, people will try to use the facilities and the food stored there when they did not pay for that service.
Vandalism from homeless, disruptive teens or unhappy customers… so there were locks. Also, horny customers have been found in places- unlocked doing well, you guessed it.
I enjoyed having lunch with certain colleagues. Yet, if I didn’t get to the sign up board soon enough, I couldn’t go to lunch with them at the 2pm slot. I had to sign up at 11, Noon or 1pm instead. There were NOT ENOUGH employees for more too many of us to be gone at the same time. Whether for lunch, breaks or going out to smoke…
Only 1 or rare times 2 of us could be “off the floor” not dealing with customers at any time. We were also… THERE TO WORK AT OUR JOBS. Not to go off on multiple smoke breaks or “rest periods” with 3 or 4 colleagues at the same time.
Also, to make sure all areas of work were “staffed” and needs of customers were provided for… we had to “sign in and sign out” if we weren’t around. If a co-worker was on premises but having lunch… or if they left the site to pick up a kid at the babysitter or left early to go to a dentist or got permission for a longer lunch because they were meeting a customer…
Well, WE SIGNED IN AND OUT. Also, because of sometimes unusual experiences and dangerous situations… it was IMPORTANT THAT THE STAFF’s whereabouts were known. I also, supervised many people. If some problem erupted and lets say I didn’t know where my teen-age or college kid part-timers were… I was responsible for them and needed to know where were they?
So… yea, we signed in/out. With other jobs I had similar things happened. A couple work places had time-clocks. Also, by signing in and out… IF YOU DIDN’T TAKE LOTS OF BREAKS… then I wanted the boss to know…. HEY, I was working. So PAY ME. While, other co-workers if you took more breaks than the legal allowed 2… then you could have the break. You just weren’t paid.
I see NO reason why those muzswine were complaining. Those rules at least to me are somewhat common.
Actually, the main thing is WHY DID THEY GET A PRAYER ROOM TO BEGIN WITH. Most businesses DON’T HAVE THEM. None of my work places had a chapel for Christians to praise the Christ or Virgin Mary statues to say the Rosary in front of. No Jewish co-workers I have had… were able to go to a room where Torah Scrolls were kept. Jia; a woman colleague from Asia (and Buddhist) NEVER had a prayer room with a Buddhist Shrine’s Gong in place and there was no incense burning for her either. There were no “Christian Science” reading rooms… Wiccan altars… Confucious statues, Holy Water dispensers to give oneself the Sign of the Cross… and no “Free-Thinker” or “Free-Thought Society” posters to affirm atheists. Why? Catholics go to work not to say the Rosary, Evangelicals I worked with were not in the work environment to “witness” and atheists were there not to be surrounded by things that “affirm” their non-belief or that they don’t acknowledge a deity.
They were their to practice their skills and training for their professions or job titles. In order to earn a paycheck you work.
You don’t demand special treatment to wash your f-ing feet, eat tortured animals (halal) in the factory cafeteria or pray to allah–bama-lama-ding-dong with GROUPS OF YOUR FRIENDS.
I mentioned the “domino effect” about muslims in a previous article’s post. This is a perfect example of that. There should have never have had a special prayer room. That only opened the door for this type of BS supremacist behavior from korHAm followers.
Arjay, well said. I haven’t been back to England since 2007. I used to visit every year but that last trip was so shocking that I’ve not returned. I could not get over how many muzzies had taken over the country so quickly. One day I got lost in London and ended up in an area off of Edgware Rd. that was all muzzie. Now they have taken over whole towns. I pray that the Brits find their collective backbone before it’s too late.
Backbone?! The Bitish peon class were bred to Submit to their hereditary betters.
They can’t even muster a stiff upper lip these days, much less a real backbone.
Christians are free and can come to our Heavenly Father 24/7. His arms are open.
Why can’t these idiots stop caving to the extreme demands of ragheads. Make them fit into the business plan of your store and if they can’t or won’t comply get rid of them. This is only if you had made the serious mistake of hiring them on the first place.
AS for halal foods, Jewish people who wish to have Kosher food simply negotiate with a meat producer to have a rabbi present to ensure the animals are humanely slaughtered and only the proper cuts get to labeled Kosher.
If that meat producer doesn’t wish to do that they simply go somewhere else to get Kosher meat.
Enterprising Jews will also start farming and raising their meat animals and slaughtering themselves.
No law suits no demonstrations no discrimination claims.
Ragheads take a hint or go home.
‘The Bedford Employment Tribunal upheld their claims and found THEY were discriminated against on the grounds of their ‘religion’. ’This case is a victory not only for Muslims, but for ALL PEOPLE who wish to PRAY WHILE AT WORK.* ’It is one of the first religious discrimination cases that Muslim complainants have won in Britain.’
Surely THEY and their ‘religion’ discriminated against Tesco, and their other workers and managers? Let’s assume that 15 minutes was docked from their pay for each ‘prayer’ session, or they worked early/late/lunchtime to make up the lost time.
Did that have NO impact on their coworkers, their managers? Did they, or will they now bitch and moan about ‘eid’?
Who FORCED islam and its cult trappings on them?
* Interesting. When anti foreign law bills were introduced in the US, cair said that they were OBVIOUSLY aimed against mohammedans. Can we now say the same to the honorable Christopher Fray? Has he EVER HEARD of a follower of any true religion DEMAND special dispensation at work?
Has ANYONE here EVER HEARD of a clause in a Human Resources (shitty PC term) contract which addressed ‘religious’ considerations, before the cult worshippers of a black stone idol arrived?
This is outrageous. I had already stopped shopping in Tesco because they produced a Ramadan TV ad but this is way over my muslim limit!
I’d turn that room into a smoking area and make sure ALL the breaks corresponded with their prayer times. I’d also make sure that pork-product snacks were free for the taking, too.
Bacon, sizzling in the microwave, would permeate the room and waft throughout the store. Who knows, it just might bring up bacon sales in the process…(sshhh….that’s my cover story)
Why did they give them a prayer room to begin with?
To Kim R: HUHhH ?!!!!!
KR: Why indeed. I believe this is as good an answer as you’ll ever get as to why things eventually turned out as they did:
“Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council Campaigning for Social Justice”
I have NEVER seen those two words “Social Justice” without every kind of PC crap being involved. They are ALWAYS busy-body leftards like this Christopher Fray appeaser and enabler of maggots like Abdirisak Aden and Mahamed Hasan; are they Somali by any chance?
“Anyone who feels that they require similar support [we JUST LOVE to stir the shit/koran] to Mr Aden and Hasan should contact Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council on 01604 400808 or email [email protected].
The names of the respondents have been changed to protect their identities.”
That last appears to be a lie, because those names appear everywhere.
If anyone in the UK would like to share a few thoughts with koran-stirrer Fray:
“Email us – [email protected]
Tel 01604 400808 Fax 01604 400813″
Here is a local report, the comments show how mohammedans are ‘winning hearts and minds’ in the UK and all round the world.
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/tribunal-rules-tesco-restricted-access-to-muslim-prayer-room-1-5551155
“Injury to their feelings. What utter bollocks.
FFS, if they were that devout, would they work for a company that has a banking arm (usury), a butchers (pork & other non-Halal meats), a seafood counter (shellfish), and which sells alcohol? I think not.
Yes, the hypocrisy alone should allow Tesco’s to counter-sue these pricks.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442448/Muslim-Tesco-workers-win-discrimination-case-bosses-locked-prayer-room.html#ixzz2gjNWAv68
“Tim, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 14 hours ago
This will really make companies think twice about employing Muslims. With good reason. Thumbs down 302 Thumbs up 4073”
Does anyone know if the Bedford Employment Tribunal is the same as the ‘make-work-for-useless-leftards’ Star Chambers in Canada, where normal judicial rules don’t apply, they just make up crap as they go along, and the process is the punishment? ‘Claimants’ pay NOTHING, do nothing, sit back and laugh while high priced lawyers and wannabe ‘judges’ litigiously rape the defendants on taxpayers’ dollars, while the latter pay all their own costs. E.g. mohamed elmasry.
I would hope Tesco appeals.
Re: “I have NEVER seen those two words “Social Justice” without every kind of PC crap being involved.”
That’s because “Social Justice” = “Group Rights.”
Group rights are crimes, and the same with all multiculturalism (which is racism) and reverse discrimination or preferential hiring policies: it’s the same old canard of communists everywhere, inflicting and extorting a forced equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity, which of course always really only punishes those who could otherwise succeed, and rewards those who choose not to.
It’s pre-emptively victim-blaming slander, as well:
“Because someone sort of like you may have once discriminated against someone sort of like them somewhere (not necessarily even here,) therefore we will take from you and give to them.”
This is where group-might-made-rights gets us: all the real human individual citizens are deprived of their real human rights, because liberal cry babies want to pretend that “All minorities were oppressed, decimated and genocided into their minority status by evil majorities! Always!”
So if Abdul is the first member of his tribe to arrive here, and after a merely subjective amount of time has passed without him becoming President – whether he tried to or not – some liberal will cry “Unfair!” and hold its breath until it turns blue to extort the outcome it wants. (See, for example, “Obama”)!
Group rights are crimes because all non-member individual humans have less rights.
“CAPISCE?”
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I cant imagine that people who live in their native land worse than animals and treat others of different beliefs like their slaves get this treatment in western world !!