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Four weeks later her religious accommodation was revoked by the airline and she was suspended. >> we are asking that her employment be reinstated. >> reporter: her lawyer says her clients sincerely held religious beliefs should not keep her from being a flight attendant. >> the law requires that the employer accommodate her beliefs. she is not required to search for another job. >> reporter: a spokesman for express jet declined to talk about the complaint but said, we embrace and respect the val...

Unreasonable burden on the job, and has the employer really as a first question made the efforts to reasonably accommodate in the first place? >> apparently according to her she says her boss told her you have your fellow flight attendant do the serving and one of the flight attendants said its not fair i have to take on someone elses work. i was wondering what express jet had to say about this. we called them and got this statement. we respect and embrace the values of all of our team members. ...

Customers so she wouldnt have to. all of it changed when a fellow employee complained. now stanley is filing the complaint with the eeoc excerting express jet is making her choose between her religion and her job. >> they are required by law to ensure theres a safe environment in place and that employees can practice their religious believes freely. of course, there are limitations that it must be reasonable. we know its not an imposition on the airline because the airline itself made that sugge...

Co-workers or on customers to accommodate the religious objection, for example, to work out a deal with a co-worker where they serve the alcohol and they serve coffee, then in that case thats what the employer needs to do. if it is an undue hardship, the employer has to spend a lot of money or if this were the only flight attendant on the flight, pretty rare, but you could imagine that, in that case the employer wouldnt have to accommodate the request that way. it depends on the particular facts...

A muslim flight attendant was suspend from her job for refusing to serve alcohol. she is trying to get her job back at express jet but she says her religion doesnt allow her to consume or even serve alcoholic beverages. >> that ree stanley says she was suspended from her job because of her religious beliefs. this week she filed a charge of discrimination against regional airline express jet. the issue, stanley converted to islam two years ago. one of her co-workers filed a complaint against her ...

Attorney, shes also an attorney for the michigan chapter of the council on american islamic relations. you filed a discrimination complaint with eeoc. whats the status? >> thank you, yes, we requested a full investigation into the complaint and the eeoc has six months to look into the matter. hopefully we will be looking into various options, including mediating the case and coming up with a positive resolution. >> i guess one of the basic questions is if your client isnt able to serve alcohol, ...

All being accommodated properly. thats what prompted her to bring this issue forward to her supervisor and at that time her supervisor had directed her to work out that arrangement with the other flight attendant to make sure the alcohol is being served and the customers requests are being satisfied. at the same time, her own religious beliefs would be accommodated as well. >> i want to read a statement from express jet who isnt giving us details on their end as far as the complaint goes. the st...

Constitutional rights violations. express jet did release a statement to cnn that read in part that express jet, we respect the values of our team members. the long history of diversity in our work force. equal opportunity commission has this complaint and they filed an investigation at which point express jet will be given a chance to respond. we asked the attorney for stanley if perhaps her client would compromise and take another job. she told cnn it is not up to her client to accommodate the...

Her reasonable accommodation be reinstated as well. >> reporter: her lawyer says her clients, quote, sincerely held religious beliefs should not keep her from being a flight attendant. >> in this situation the law requires that the employer accommodates her beliefs. shes not required to search for another job in order to have her beliefs accommodated. >> reporter: a spokesman for express jet declined to discuss stanleys complaint but in a statement to cnn said, quote, we embrace and respect the ...