Holiday entitlement for ethnic minority employees.

andygb

fengirl wrote: »

But if there is a good business reason why the Jewish person may not leave work early on a Friday, then they have no right to this.
This applies to anyone of any faith and none - a toyshop, for instance may bar all employees from taking leave during December as this would be a busy time of year.

In my opinion, any firm which allows a group of employees from one religion, to leave work early on a Friday, on a regular basis, is discriminating against the rest of the employees from different religions, who have to stay in work.

terra_ferma

DVardysShadow wrote: »

A good way to wind up the natives. I think the only way this would work is if the christians get good friday, easter monday and xmas while the hindus work those days, but get 3 of their own choosing.

This is what a company I worked for did. They eliminated 'bank holidays' as such and people could work on xmas day, easter etc (from home, or offices open on those days) and take other days off.
Worked well, everybody happy!

Roobarb73

whatamigonnado wrote: »

Is this true?
W

No, not true at all.

daska

whatamigonnado wrote: »

Of course he is - [STRIKE]one[/STRIKE] some of them, at least.:rolleyes:

W

hence the

I'm sure you could make a good case for whatever holydays are most important in your own religion, whether that's christmas or eid. You might struggle with 'day of the jedi' though...

space_rider

Having different faiths works great where I work. It means we can all have xmas day and boxing day off as the muslims and jehovah`s witness don`t celebrate christmas.

olly300

andygb wrote: »

In my opinion, any firm which allows a group of employees from one religion, to leave work early on a Friday, on a regular basis, is discriminating against the rest of the employees from different religions, who have to stay in work.

Not necessarily.

Lots of companies I've worked for allow those who are not customer facing to work flexible hours as long as they work there full weekly allocated hours and are available in core hours i.e. 10 -4 On Fridays the core hours are something like 10-3.

Therefore if an employee has a religious reason for leaving earlier on a Friday they must use the rest of the week to make the hours up. Likewise an employee who lives 60 miles away can also leave early on a Friday but they also have to make the hours up in the week.

In addition customer facing employees may have to work earlier or later than normal hours, and are told their hours are not flexible when they apply for the job.

joeblack066

Back in the lae 70's my Dad had a problem that many of the staff where he was the boss wanted their religious holidays off, understandable, but as production actually shut down over Christmas, this just hadn't been feasible. Then he came up with the solution; the production ontinued 365 days a year, and all staff got the same number of days holiday entitlement for whichever religious festival they wished to celebrate. Simples! And pretty progressive for the 70's methinks.