{"id":74983,"date":"2018-11-08T12:34:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T17:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74983"},"modified":"2018-11-08T19:48:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:48:45","slug":"ocr-fired-muslim-awarded-3-2-million-in-discrimination-suit-against-loma-linda-university-medical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74983","title":{"rendered":"(OCR) Fired Muslim awarded $3.2 million in discrimination suit against Loma Linda University Medical Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The complaint contends Strode and Gonzalez harassed Lizarraga through 2015 because of his Islamic beliefs, at times referring to him as a terrorist and calling him other derogatory names, and complained he was \u201ctoo slow\u201d due to his medical condition..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Strode and\/or Mr. Gonzalez often told the plaintiff, \u2018Why don\u2019t you quit?\u2019 or \u2018You are going to get fired anyway,\u2019 \u201d  the lawsuit alleges.<\/p>\n<p>After Lizarraga\u2019s work restrictions were lifted, Strode and Gonzalez increased his workload and assigned him tasks that should have been undertaken by other workers, says the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite this unreasonable and unfair workload, plaintiff still completed it, \u201d according to the suit. \u201cStill, Mr. Strode and Mr. Gonzalez would unjustly complain to the plaintiff that he was too slow and continued to tell him he should quit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2018\/11\/07\/fired-muslim-awarded-3-2-million-in-discrimination-suit-against-loma-linda-university-medical-center\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The complaint contends Strode and Gonzalez harassed Lizarraga through 2015 because of his Islamic beliefs, at times referring to him as a terrorist and calling him other derogatory names, and complained he was \u201ctoo slow\u201d due to his medical condition..<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74983\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74985,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74983\/revisions\/74985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}