Walmart threatened to fire Mormon worker for observing Sabbath

In 2009, an assistant manager at Walmart encountered threats of termination and disciplinary action because he observed the Sabbath. The devout Mormon observed the Sabbath from 1995 to 2009, jobmouse.com reports, but after Walmart revised its scheduling system they stopped the Sabbath accommodation, and began to discipline the man and mark each absence when he couldn't get someone to swap his Sunday shift.

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