Monday, 1 October 2007
Muslim checkout staff can refuse to sell drink
This story is reported in The Sun, the Daily Mail and the London Evening Standard (who are effectively the same publication), on the This is London website.
Muslim supermarket checkout staff have been given the right to refuse to sell alcohol to customers.
At least one chain has allowed workers to call in a colleague to take their place when customers are buying beer, wine or spirits.
Those with religious objections to selling drink have been asked to raise their hands so that a colleague can step in.
Staff have also been allowed to avoid stacking shelves with alcohol.
The system by which a checkout worker can raise their hand to avoid selling alcohol - much in the same way staff under 18 have to raise their hand to get the permission of a supervisor to sell drink - has been introduced by Sainsbury's.
The chain operates the practice at at least one store in North London, according to The Sun this is Swiss Cottage, where one checkout worker is regularly replaced by Muslim colleagues who are prepared to sell alcohol and handle packages or bottles containing it.
Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: "By selling alcohol you are not committing a sin. You are just doing the job you are paid for. Muslim employees have a duty to their employer and in supermarkets most people would accept that in selling alcohol you are merely passing it through a checkout. That is hardly going to count against you on the day of judgement."
The Sun also quotes Muslim leader Ghayasuddin Siddiqui who called it “over-enthusiasm”.
I suspect this has been implemented after one, and one only difficult employee objected and that she is taking great delight in watching the infidel jump through fiery hoops for her delectation.
I do not ever recall hearing of Methodist cashiers objecting to scanning alcohol, or Jewish cashiers objecting to scanning pork or shellfish. I expect ham and pork will be this hijabette’s next objection.
The Iconoclast
Monday, 1 October 2007
Muslim checkout staff can refuse to sell drink
This story is reported in The Sun, the Daily Mail and the London Evening Standard (who are effectively the same publication), on the This is London website.
Muslim supermarket checkout staff have been given the right to refuse to sell alcohol to customers.
At least one chain has allowed workers to call in a colleague to take their place when customers are buying beer, wine or spirits.
Those with religious objections to selling drink have been asked to raise their hands so that a colleague can step in.
Staff have also been allowed to avoid stacking shelves with alcohol.
The system by which a checkout worker can raise their hand to avoid selling alcohol - much in the same way staff under 18 have to raise their hand to get the permission of a supervisor to sell drink - has been introduced by Sainsbury's.
The chain operates the practice at at least one store in North London, according to The Sun this is Swiss Cottage, where one checkout worker is regularly replaced by Muslim colleagues who are prepared to sell alcohol and handle packages or bottles containing it.
Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: "By selling alcohol you are not committing a sin. You are just doing the job you are paid for. Muslim employees have a duty to their employer and in supermarkets most people would accept that in selling alcohol you are merely passing it through a checkout. That is hardly going to count against you on the day of judgement."
The Sun also quotes Muslim leader Ghayasuddin Siddiqui who called it “over-enthusiasm”.
I suspect this has been implemented after one, and one only difficult employee objected and that she is taking great delight in watching the infidel jump through fiery hoops for her delectation.
I do not ever recall hearing of Methodist cashiers objecting to scanning alcohol, or Jewish cashiers objecting to scanning pork or shellfish. I expect ham and pork will be this hijabette’s next objection.
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