Union Votes to Replace Labor Day With Muslim Holiday at Tennessee Plant

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Originally Posted by Alex

The article states that 250 out of 1200 are Muslim.

And that's why I wouldn't really recognize religious holidays. The problem is that Christmas is a federally recognized religious holiday which I strongly oppose.

I'd prefer to just see religious holidays not handled at all. Just add two days to vacation (or call them floating holidays if you want) and then handle the requests for time off the same way you would any other vacation requests where multiple simultaneous requests would create a critical shortage.

250 are Somalian Muslims. Other sources state that there are a total of 700 muslims at the plant.