ELECTROLUX URGED TO GRANT MUSLIMS RAMADHAN RIGHTS

ELECTROLUX URGED TO GRANT MUSLIMS RAMADHAN RIGHTS

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August 13, 2022

CAIR’s Minnesota chapter (CAIR-MN) called on American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact Swedish appliance manufacturer Electrolux to ask the company to grant legally-mandated religious accommodation to Muslim employees at its St. Cloud, Minn. plant during the upcoming Ramadhan fast. Earlier this year, Electrolux adopted a new policy that prohibits all food on the production floor. Since that policy was put in place, Muslim employees, their union representatives and CAIR-MN have been working to seek an exception to allow the workers to bring a snack onto the production floor to break their fast. Earlier all requests for religious accommodation have been ignored by Electrolux officials, despite the fact that the majority of the more than 300 employees who work in the evening shift are Muslim.