According to the EEOC's suit, the company required Norma Rodriguez, Maykel Ruz, Rommy Sanchez, Yanileydis Capote and other employees to spend at least half their work days in courses that involved Scientology religious practices, such as screaming at ashtrays or staring at someone for eight hours without moving. The company also instructed employees to attend courses at the Church of Scientology. Additionally, the company required Sanchez to undergo an "audit" by connecting herself to an "E-meter," which Scientologists believe is a religious artifact, and required her to undergo "purification" treatment at the Church of Scientology. According to the EEOC's suit, employees repeatedly asked not to attend the courses but were told it was a requirement of the job. In the cases of Rodriguez and Sanchez, when they refused to participate in Scientology religious practices and/or did not conform to Scientology religious beliefs, they were terminated.
Requiring employees to conform to religious practices and beliefs espoused by the employer, creating a hostile work environment, and failing to reasonably accommodate the religious beliefs of an employee all violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Forcing your employees to do dumb Scientology exercises creates a "hostile work environment"
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit
against Dr. Dennis Nobbe's Dynamic Medical Services, Inc, where
employees were made to engage in bizarre Scientology rituals as a
condition of employment. The EEOC says that this violated employees'
freedom of religion, and they're suing Dr Nobbe to prove it. This is the
downside of the Church of Scientology's dodge of getting itself
certified as a "religion," a practice that otherwise grants it enormous
privileges, including preferential tax-treatment. But once your woo-woo
exercises are officially "religious rituals," then forcing someone to
engage in them violates freedom of religion rules:
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