{"id":77458,"date":"2019-01-17T17:26:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77458"},"modified":"2019-01-17T18:26:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T23:26:46","slug":"the-hill-jury-awards-hotel-dishwasher-21-million-after-finding-employer-violated-her-religious-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77458","title":{"rendered":"(The Hill) Jury awards hotel dishwasher $21 million after finding employer violated her religious rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former hotel dishwasher has been awarded $21.5 million in damages after a jury found that her previous employer violated her religious rights.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Jean Pierre, 60, sued the Park Hotels &amp; Resorts, accusing the group of violating her civil rights by firing her for being unable to work on Sundays, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre, who had worked as a dishwasher at the Conrad Miami Hotel, had requested from the beginning of her employment that she have Sundays off to participate in Christian missionary work to help the poor, according to NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love God,\u201d she told the local NBC affiliate. \u201cNo work on Sunday, because Sunday I honor God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/425838-jury-awards-hotel-dishwasher-21-million-after-finding-employer\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jury awards hotel dishwasher $21 million after finding employer violated her religious rights <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fMXOkSaqvi\">https:\/\/t.co\/fMXOkSaqvi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j1r2Ijx05P\">pic.twitter.com\/j1r2Ijx05P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1085942830898520064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former hotel dishwasher has been awarded $21.5 million in damages after a jury found that her previous employer violated her religious rights. Marie Jean Pierre, 60, sued the Park Hotels &amp; Resorts, accusing the group of violating her civil<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77458\">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":[597,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77458","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=77458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77462,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77458\/revisions\/77462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}