Woman sued $ 21.5 million for the employer, which violated her religious rights

Woman sued $ 21.5 million for the employer, which violated her religious rights

KIEV. 18 Jan. UNN. 60-year-old Marie Jean Pierre (Marie Jean Pierre) seized $ 21.5 million next to the hotel, from which she was fired because she could not work on Sundays. The jury concluded that the employer violated her religious rights. This publication reports the Voice of America, reports UNN.

The woman worked at the Conrad Miami Hotel as a dishwasher from 2006 to 2016. The hotel knew from the start that Pierre can’t work on Sundays, because involved in missionary work. But in 2015, the Manager began to assign her to work on Sundays, the newspaper writes.

First, the staff has varied with the woman shifts, but at some point, the Manager demanded that Pierre showed up for work Sunday. When she refused, fired her. In 2017, the woman filed a lawsuit against the owner of the hotel, reports the Miami Herald.

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On Monday a Federal jury in Miami decided that the hotel must pay pier 36 thousand dollars for lost wages, $ 500 thousand for emotional distress and $ 21 million punitive damages.

We will remind, the family of Zaur Dadaev, an accused in the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, has sued Russia in the European court of human rights (ECHR) compensation in the amount of 120 thousand euros.

A dishwasher at a hotel, claimed in a lawsuit that her former employer violated her religious rights by scheduling her to work on Sundays.

This week, a jury agreed and awarded Marie Jean Pierre $ 21 million in punitive damages. https://t.co/f3R7bKxVOQ

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