Target Could Have FIRED Them

"Target offers alternatives to Muslim employees"

3/19/2007 9:11:30 AM
By Steve Karnowski
Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS -- "Muslim cashiers at some Minneapolis Target stores who object to ringing up products that contain pork are being shifted to other positions where they don't need to, the discount retailer said Saturday.

The Star Tribune reported last week that some Muslim cashiers at local Targets had declined to scan pork products such as bacon because doing so would conflict with their religious beliefs. They would ask other cashiers to ring up such purchases or, sometimes, customers would scan the items themselves, the newspaper reported.

Minneapolis-based Target Corp. has now offered its local Muslim cashiers who object to handling pork the option of wearing gloves while cashiering, shifting to other positions or transferring to other nearby stores.

"We are confident that this is a reasonable solution for our guests and team members," Target spokeswoman Paula Thornton-Greear said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press on Saturday."

The company I work for would not have hesitated to fire the lot of them, with enough attorney-power to back it up.

The headline should have read "Target Caves!"