Basket Mouth Reacts As Hotel Dishwasher Is Awarded $21 Million After She Was Fired For Refusing To Work On A Sunday

Basket Mouth Reacts As Hotel Dishwasher Is Awarded $21 Million After She Was Fired For Refusing To Work On A Sunday

Nigerians, including comedian Basket Mouth, have reacted after it
emerged that a woman was awarded $21 million after she was fired for
refusing to work on Sundays for religious reasons.

60-year-old Marie Jean Pierre, a former dishwasher at the Conrad
Miami Hotel, worked with the establishment for more than 10 years. But
she was fired in March 2016 because she missed work for six Sundays to
attend Bethel Baptist Church in Miami. 

Pierre, a devout Christian missionary born in Haiti, said that she
had informed her employer when she was hired that she could not work on
Sundays because of her religious beliefs. When she was then assigned to
work on Sunday, she skipped work and went to church. After missing work
for six Sundays, her employment was terminated.

During an interview on Wednesday, she told NBC 6 Miami:

I love God. No work on Sunday, because Sunday I honor God

Pierre sued her former company for terminating her employment. Her
lawsuit argued that her former employer had violated the 1964 Civil
Rights Act, which protects workers from discrimination on the basis of
race, religion, sex or national origin.

A jury in federal court ruled in her favor on Monday, granting her
$21 million in damages, plus $35,000 in back wages and $500,000 for
emotional pain and mental anguish.

Following the court ruling, Nigerians took to social media to react and it’s hilarious.

Basket mouth wrote:

$21m??!!!! And Globacom tour was on sundays that year oh!!!!
kai….and I don’t play with my Sundays oh!!! $21m…..N7.5BN….Kai!!