A Muslim flight attendant has sued ExpressJet, accusing the airline of wrongly suspending her because she refused to serve alcohol to passengers.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan chapter announced Tuesday it filed the lawsuit last week on behalf of Charee Stanley, a Detroit-based flight attendant for the airline headquartered in Atlanta.
The federal court case follows a discrimination complaint filed last year with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which dismissed it without determining whether the airline violated the law.
Stanley alleges ExpressJet didn’t provide a reasonable religious accommodation and seeks back pay and other damages. She was placed on unpaid leave last summer.
ExpressJet said in a statement that it values diversity but cannot comment on specific personnel matters or ongoing litigation.
(AP)
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let me get this right: she was suspended from her job for not DOING her job?
and now she’s sueing for that? I dont understand.
What if it was my religion to smack people across the face-should I get upset for being layed off too?
A fundamentalist smackist. How can I join?
She will lose since: 1) there is no way an airline could have a cabin attendant that didn’t handle alcohol since a big part of the job is as a de facto waiter/bar tender; 2)Islam doesn’t prohibit serving alcohol, it prohibts drinking alcohol (if on the other hand the airline insisted she drink alochol, she would have a case); 3) Note that EEOC, an agency know for fanatic committment to political correctness, looked at the case and said it wasn’t interested.