This One Is Short On Details: Three years after filing a lawsuit, a St. Joseph librarian who refused to work on Sundays for religious reasons has her job back.
This summer a federal jury found that the Rolling Hills Library broke the law when it fired Connie Rehm in 2003. Rehm’s discrimination lawsuit said that her Lutheran beliefs prevented her from working on Sundays.
In May, a jury ruled in Rehm’s favor and awarded her $54,000 in back pay. Two months later, a judge ordered the library to reinstate Rehm to her job at the library’s Savannah branch.
Serves them right
I have been absolutely disgusted and appalled at some of the decisions that library directors are allowed to push on to staff and through careless/oblivious boards. It is good to see that the law finally set right this obvious case of employer discrimination.