(Religion News) A Muslim employee has filed a discrimination complaint against the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles for allegedly denying his repeated requests to attend weekly religious services.
“Because I am observing my faith at work, my job is at risk,” the employee, whose name was not made public, said in an affidavit filed Friday (Oct. 18) by the Council on American-Islamic Relations-New York, a civil rights group. “I believe I am being punished and retaliated against because I am observing my religious practice of attending congregational prayer.”
Last week, CAIR also filed two separate complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission involving allegations of discrimination against Muslim workers. One involves a Delaware woman who claims she was prohibited from clocking-in to work at a detention center because of her hijab and was told she was “looking like a terrorist.”
