This Should be Interesting

As a former local union leader I've represented individuals with specific religious requests. But how far should it go? Five or six breaks a day (is it that many)? I don't have a firm grip on the answer, but I guess I see both sides of this issue. Maybe it will wind up in the Supreme Court.

From the Los Angeles Times...

GREELEY, COLO. -- A meatpacking company Wednesday laid off about 100 Muslim immigrant workers who walked off the job last week in protest of the firm's refusal to give them time to pray during the holy month of Ramadan.

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Non-Muslim workers complained they had to do additional work when Muslims went to pray, which devout followers do five times a day.