A group of Muslim employees of the global package service DHL have filed complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing the company of firing them for praying.
Mohamed Maow, 27, a refugee from Somalia who worked at DHL in Hebron, Kentucky, says the company previously offered flexibility on break times that allowed him and other Muslims to stop and pray five times a day, as Islamic tradition dictates. They were fired en masse, Maow alleges, after DHL changed the policy, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
Maow’s is one of 11 complaints that’s been filed; 13 more are expected. The Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed the complaints on their behalf.
DHL did not respond to a request for comment from The Cincinnati Enquirer.