Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Your faith in the workplace



A judge rejected a harrassment claim by an employee bothered by a recently converted co-worker who posted religious sayings in her cubicle and expounded at length on her new faith.

An employer "has no legal obligation to suppress any and all religious expression merely because it annoys a single employee," he ruled.

But more often, says Starr, employers have been able to shut down "people who are actively proselytizing or expressing their religious viewpoint in a way others find disturbing."

"The touchstone," he says, "is whether the behavior is disruptive."

Read the full article here

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Im glad to say that I work for a huge Company, and they have no problem, with us showing any kind of spiritual or religion!! i have it all post it up in my cubie!!!

Anonymous said...

I met my Bible Study Group years ago, talking about Jesus in a dining room where I was working as a waittress. I had been persecuted for witnessing before that, but what a blessing it was to find New Christian believers in the midst of that! God is so Good! It all depends upon where you work and who is convicted, sometimes even condemned by their own personal experience with "people like us"....