SunshineSmile

I completely agree with "I love my cat." A lot of people have a "slave to my employer/government" mentality regardless of their background. "Oh, if I complain, I will loose my job." "If I complain, no one will hire me again." Complain=punishment. So they keep their mouths shut and just look for another job. How do you think revolutions happened? Massive number of people complained, and things got fixed. If a facility is doing something wrong, the employees should be encouraged to speak up and fix the problem. Unions are there for that also. The management should be supportive of it so that the facility could become the best that it can be. The fact that a nurse had the guts to risk it all says that he/she will stand up for what he/she believes. It also shows that if you hire him/her, he/she will stand up for the patients' rights and point out things if someone is harming a patient. You want someone like that for your facility if you want a great facility.

Actually, my faith does not teach anything against suing those who discriminate. In fact, they teach that those who are careful about observing their religious duties will be rewarded in the afterlife, even if it means loosing one's job. Having said that, I am not looking into making a "career out of suing facilities" as some people put it. I became a nurse because I want to help people, and moving forward to getting a Master's degree also. It just so happens that my religion has some limitations. If I could just snap a switch and make the limitations disappear, I would. I understand that if this was in a place like Israel where a ton of people observe the sabbath it is competely unreasonable to make this request and I would work on Saturdays if this was in Israel. But here in America, things are different... The fact that the country was established by people who escaped religious persecution... the fact that Orthodox Jews are a minority (statistically speaking).... So the rabbis don't make exceptions so quickly. I have been looking into a Monday through Friday job but no luck so far... Clinics typically look for medical assistants rather than RNs. Dialysis is good. The ones I've seen want only people with dialysis experience, which I don't have.... M-F surgical offices would be good but haven't found any opening yet.

If we worked in the same facility, I could have worked for you. I think this is where people of different faith come to help each other. I am sure there are people who want their day of faith to be off and if someone else has the same situation but for a different day, it is a great situation.

I am Orthodox which does not give me much flexibility in terms of which day I observe as my "sabbath" or "a day of rest." I did ask 3 rabbis about the issue and basically was told that since I am not working in an emergency care setting, it's not considered as a "life saving situation," and because I would be traveling to a hospital(which is not allowed on Sabbath) and "waiting" for the life saving situation to happen. There are emergency medical personnel that are allowed to violate these rules but it didn't apply to my particular situation.

There are enough Jews that would want Saturdays off and enough Christians that want Sundays off. I think it's a fair trade if the Jews offer to work on Sundays for the Christians and the Christians work Saturdays for the Jews. The religious Christians should be happy that there is someone who is willing to work for their Sundays so they could go to church, which is basically what I offered.

Thank you for your input Sun0408. I guess it's a matter of how you look at it just like you mentioned. One employer could say it's "undue hardship" to make a particular schedule, but another could say that it's not a problem. I had employers tell me that it was not a problem to make accomodations, but they ended up not offering me a job for one reason or another. Per diem definitely would work... I am actually going into a nurse practitioner program soon and maybe that would change the entire situation. I am not sure....

Sabbath observer. I told them I could work Saturday nights and any time Sundays, but not from Friday sundown to to Saturday sunset. They wanted me to work alternate weekends, which is common, and did not want to make any acommodations. I have worked for a facility that had no problem with me working every Sundays instead of every other Sat, Sun. It's what they call in legal jargon as "reasonable acommodation."

The discrimination was based on religion. The facility blatantly told me that they were taking away the job offer because of my religion. And the manager at the second place where I worked told me that she would not have hired me if she knew of my religion. Not sure if that makes a difference.

I was discriminated against when I applied for a job. In other words, a job offer at a hospital was rescinded due to their discrimination against me. I sued them and won. Now my name is all over Google if you search it. A few years later, similar thing happened. I got a job at a well known hospital, worked at the place, and the manager discriminated me. Since she couldn't make it obvious that the discrimination as the reason for terminating me, she micromanaged me and came up with a bunch of things that a new orientee might get wrong or make mistakes on to get me fired. Now, my lawyers are about to sue that hospital also. I have been looking for a new job for the last 6 months since the fancy hospital manager let me go. My question is, is my career doomed because my name is tarnished all over the internet as a "litigious nurse," or does it really matter? Do HR people and nurse managers reconsider offering a job to a good candidate because she once sued another facility? What they did to me was wrong. And I want justice. But do people that sue facilities end up having a hard time getting a job elsewhere because of it? It seems like double punishment to me.