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Article

13 Oct 2007

Author:
Michael Diamond, Asbury Park Press [USA]

Religious discrimination complaints increase [USA]

Mikhael Rozenberg, an Orthodox Jew, had been working at Vonage Holdings Corp. for a couple of weeks in the fall of 2005 when the High Holidays forced him to miss a portion of a training session. Vonage didn't allow him to make up for the missed time and told him the only available position required him to work on Saturdays, according to a lawsuit filed on his behalf by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... Management "told Rozenberg, 'You will not fit here' and that when he stopped practicing his religion, he could come back," the lawsuit said... There were 2,541 religious discrimination charges filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2006, up nearly 9% from 2005 and up more than 30% since before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. [also refers to lawsuit against Sierra Pacific Industries]