Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Introduction
Welcome to the latest edition of the McDermott Will & Emery Global Employment Law Update. The purpose of this publication is to provide you with concise summaries of many of the laws and court decisions from 2020 that significantly affect employers and employees all over the world. No publication has ever captured all new employment law developments from every single country. However, our effort to create the most comprehensive global employment update ever assembled has resulted in updates from 53 countries.
Many of the updates presented in this publication describe changes in the law that are well known to lawyers and human resources professionals from those countries, but are lesser known in other parts of the world. Our aim is to provide you and your colleagues with a useful reference guide to significant changes in employment law all across the globe. Furthermore, we hope this guide and other specially designed products we crea
Rupa Subramanya: No, Jagmeet, Canada is not a racist country. It s one of the most tolerant places on earth Singh does the cause of fighting racism no favours by taking an extreme and exaggerated position that I, as an immigrant and person of colour, cannot agree with
Author of the article: Rupa Subramanya
Publishing date: Jun 09, 2021 • 14 minutes ago • 3 minute read • NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh points to his turban as he speaks about racism during a speech at a vigil outside the London Muslim Mosque that was organized after four members of a Muslim-Canadian family were killed in what police describe as a hate-motivated attack, in London, Ont., on June 8. Photo by Nathan Denette/Pool via REUTERS
The case was originally filed against JBS USA LLC, which at the time was doing business as JBS Swift & Co. The company has since changed its name.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the case, charging race, national origin, and religious discrimination at the company’s beef-processing plant in Greeley. The EEOC’s suit alleged that JBS discriminated against employees because they were Muslim, immigrants from Somalia, and Black. According to the EEOC, JBS denied religious accommodations to Muslim employees at its Greeley plant. Specifically, the EEOC asserted that JBS denied Muslim employees the ability to pray as required by their religion, and that Muslim employees were harassed when they tried to pray during scheduled breaks or even on bathroom breaks.
Nineteen-Year Employee With Disabilities Denied Intermittent Leave as Reasonable Accommodation and Then Fired, Federal Agency Charged - ATLANTA – Treehouse Foods, Inc. /.
DENVER (AP) The second-largest producer of beef, pork and chicken in the U.S. will pay up to $5.5 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the company discriminated against Muslim employees at a meat processing plant in northern Colorado.