On Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:20:23 UTC, Tim Watts wrote:
On 15/01/15 15:04, whisky-dave wrote:

[2] I think it is perfectly reasonable for a jew or a muslim to work in
a supermarket and ask not to do meat counter duties as touching pork is
more than he can stand - because it's relatively simple to accommodate..

Is it ? if I were a vegetarian would the same apply ?
If you don;t want to touch pork best not to apply for a job where handling pork is part of the job description.

That was my entire point.

Not quite.


It's perfectly possible for a large employer to "slot people in" without
any real aggravation.

it might not be possible, there was a case where a muslim women didn;t want to serve alchol to anyonme put she woprked at checkout.
Yes of course you could have a non-alchol isle but I don;t think that's a good idea.

This is why I compared a supermarket with a
butcher. The latter cannot accommodate anti-porcine wishes without
changing their entire practise. A supermarket can trivially say "OK, you
can do shelf, tills and veg".

it can but when on the tills you might have to handle the meat that's in bags.
If teh supwermarket allows vegitarians not to shel;f meat and vegans not to touch what they don;t want to fine. But these things are all just beliefs.
Anyone can have beliefs.


Not much different to accommodating someone with a shellfish allergy.

Not really as it's a belief rather than a medical condition.
If you're obese and addicted to cake best not to apply for a job at greggs.
Or more lilely it's an excellent reason ;-)


I don;t like hieghts so is it OK for me to get a job cleaning the chards windows and saying sorry I'm not going outside it's too high up.


No, but you might reasonably expect to work for a cleaning contractor
and only do low down work like inside the building or ground floor level.

If there is such a job. I doubt the companies that clean windows have two sets of employeees one for ground floor and then everyone else.


I'm not so sure it is a balance. Yopu set laws a rules for those that are inhabiting the country rather than for teh benifit of those that don't.


All I;m saying is I have no problems with low cost accommodations -

Are you refering to those that are renting out garden sheds as houses ?

it's
when people want to change everything it becomes untenable.

It's happening with halal meat, nothing wrong with that until you suspect or realsie the reason halal meat is being sold isn't really down to religion but cost. You don't need all the checks in place for the non cruelty of animals and you'll find of allowed, the hygena also suffers.
Some halal butchers are fine and are clean while others leave a lot to be desired and I bet they ARE breaking the law.

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