A Muslim advocacy group is accusing Southwest Airlines of denying a Maryland worker’s request for a schedule change so he could attend a Friday prayer meeting and then firing him when he took a day off.
In a complaint to the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said the carrier fired Baltimore-Washington International Airport ramp agent Justin Mavins after the company’s “accommodations team” said he couldn’t switch shifts to attend Jum’ah services on Friday afternoon. During the company’s December meltdown, he then used a personal day to go to the prayer meeting and was fired shortly after.
Mavins had recently been hired for the ramp agent job at Southwest, so he only was allowed a limited number of attendance issues before he was terminated, the complaint said.
