Somalis in St.Cloud, Minnesota pocket 1.35 million

[Captain24]

A federal judge gave approval for Gold'n Plump Inc. and an employment agency to pay $1.35 million to settle lawsuits alleging religious discrimination against Muslims at a chicken processing plant in Cold Spring, Minn.

The money will go to 128 Somali Muslims who claim that St. Cloud-based Gold'n Plump violated their religious rights by refusing to allow them prayer breaks during work hours, and to another 28 workers who said a St. Paul employment agency, the Work Connection Inc., required them to sign forms acknowledging they would be required to handle pork.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigated the allegations and said it found cause to believe discrimination occurred, according to lawsuits filed last year.

In a settlement approved Tuesday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeanne Graham, Gold'n Plump will add a paid break during the second half of each shift to accommodate Muslim employees who wish to pray. The break is in addition to one early in the shift and lunch breaks required by law.

The Work Connection has agreed to provide offers of employment to the 28 job seekers who were turned away for not signing the "pork form."

[Captain24]

This is number on reason I love the United States. Equal opportunity for all and no religious discrimination

[AbdiWahab252]

A classic example of negative attention

[Captain24]

A classic example of negative attention

Actually, I am the biggest critics for those bringing negative attention, like those taxi drivers who refused to carry a blind man with a dog, but these guys have a legitimate case my friend

[zulaika]

if my math is right..that works out to about $90k/person.

not bad..

[Minneapolis Mayor]

But the Problem is, This somalis employees would devide themselves into qabil and would fight over this Money. Every qabil would claim the members from the other qabil were not praying salah and did not fight for this money.

[Xashi]

But the Problem is, This somalis employees would devide themselves into qabil and would fight over this Money. Every qabil would claim the members from the other qabil were not praying salah and did not fight for this money.

The Salat can be divided according to 4.5

[kambuli]

Some people just abuse the right to prayers too..There were cases in which a whole group of people will walk away an assembly line and claim they want to pray salaad in Jumac(Collectively)...

There are people who take almost an hour to do salaad.. etc

But as long as someone is genuine and have respect for himself and his religion only a sick person will discreminate..We have our own prayer room in a big corporation and believe me no one bothers us..Because we are trusted that we won't abuse the time...

[surrender]

This is number on reason I love the United States. Equal opportunity for all and no religious discrimination

i agree! $90k per person. wow thats lotta money for those somalis!! hope they use it wisely!

[hanqadh]

1.35 thats nothing, they pocket pennies after legal fees and so forth. with 158 people c'mon

[SultanOrder]

This is number on reason I love the United States. Equal opportunity for all and no religious discrimination

i agree! $90k per person. wow thats lotta money for those somalis!! hope they use it wisely!

minis court and legal fee's

[ms.naliaa]

if my math is right..that works out to about $90k/person.

not bad..

yea...should feed them for a year maybe yr n half.

[Captain24]

They can turn that 60,000 to 200,000 in a year and to 2 million in five years

[guhad122]

Zuleeqa,
I guess you never took the GMAT exam where you are required to do all these fractions and calculations with no calculator in sight. If my math serves me well, each will end up less than 9K. And on top of that the lawyers will take at least 40% of the whole thing, which is over half a million. The Maryooleey would be lucky if each gets anything more than 1,000 dollars. Trust me, I worked with couple of people in similar situations and it is never worth. As a matter fact, Somalis who do things like this bring shame and defamation to our community. Think about the long term and how the company, from now one, will minimize Maryooleey hiring. Why is that we never think and aim for the long run?