 “…the defendants’ managers scheduled Neal to work the evening shift on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. Because the 
shift interfered with her Sabbath observance, Neal, who had previously been allowed to be off for her Sabbath by other managers at the hotel, explained that she could not work on that evening because of her Sabbath. The hotel managers refused Neal’s request and instead fired her…”
The owners/operators of Comfort Inn Oceanfront South in Nags Head, N.C., violated federal law when they failed to accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs and then fired her because of her religion, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed Monday.
According to the EEOC’s complaint, Claudia Neal, who worked as a front desk clerk at Comfort Inn Oceanfront South, is a Seventh-Day Adventist. Neal observes her Sabbath from sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday.
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While this is obviously inexcusable, it was also easily avoidable. If the owners had used shift scheduling software like EZShift, they would easily have been able to include a rule saying that Neal and any other individuals with similar restrictions can’t work on Saturday night, then let the software automatically build an error-free schedule based on employee preferences and the requirements of each shift. It seems like this situation got to the point it did because someone made a mistake in scheduling and was too proud to admit it. With shift scheduling software solutions like EZShift, this wouldn’t happen, and would have saved the owners and managers hours of headache each week when trying to put together the employee shift schedule for the follow week.
While this is obviously inexcusable, it was also easily avoidable. If the owners had used shift scheduling software like EZShift, they would easily have been able to include a rule saying that Neal and any other individuals with similar restrictions can’t work on Saturday night, then let the software automatically build an error-free schedule based on employee preferences and the requirements of each shift. It seems like this situation got to the point it did because someone made a mistake in scheduling and was too proud to admit it. With shift scheduling software solutions like EZShift, this wouldn’t happen, and would have saved the owners and managers hours of headache each week when trying to put together the employee shift schedule for the follow week.