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Regardless of Home Depot’s company policy, this is a clearly a case of religious discrimination only because of the method of execution of the firing.  I can tell you right now, that kid is going to get the right to sue Home Depot and he will win.  If Home Depot would have taken immediate action the moment he started wearing the button AND if they would have taken the same immediate action with ALL employees, Home Depot would have been in the right to not allow any employee to wear non-Home Depot buttons. 

But, because they waited until he whipped out the bible to fire him, it will be Home Depot that burns in hell.  This case will go to court, unless HD agrees to settle beforehand.  HD is guilty, guilty, guilty.

I love it.  This is a clear-cut example one of those cases where the company’s own employee guidelines comes back to bite the company in the ass.

What they should have done was to keep their lips zipped when they saw the bible come out.  Instead, they should have scheduled a mandatory employee meeting or issued a company memo stating, “Effective immediately, employees in violation of Home Depot’s company policy of not wearing non-company issued blah, blah, blah on their person while on the clock, will be terminated.”  Or something to that effect.  No finger pointing, no names, no favoritism, no excuses.  If you are going to enforce company policy, you have to do it to everyone, even management.

By allowing the bible to be the triggering event, this matter went from a case of an employee violating company policy to a case of the employer committing religious discrimination.  They waited for the wrong moment and then played the wrong card.  Juries LOVE to get these kinds of cases because they get endless amounts of joy sticking it hard to the company. 

Just because your employer has a employee manual doesn’t mean the company’s got iron clad protection from their own screw-ups. Read my article on how to use the employee manual against your employer when things go south for you.  Get a copy of Work Laws Exposed and learn how to protect yourself on the job when your employer starts acting like God.

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