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yea i heard it on the news today and the radio..

i thought he had agreed to wear it in the first place

and ofcourse this makes national news on TV and radio..!

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Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

Before you comment please think, if this was you and you had been wearing your pagh with no problems for the past 25 years, and then out of the blue some one say's to you that you have to wear this logo on your pagh or you'll get demoted how would you feel????

I wouldn't wear it either if I was him come on guys Im a girl and I wouldn't allow it, think how he must feel about it.

The males in my family would never allow it, they don't let people touch their pagh never mind sticking logo's on their pagh.

If i have said anything out of line please forgive me pray.gif

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Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

it is unfortunate that he has to go through all of this, but if it is company policy, but was never enforced, than i can see why he has to put the logo on. Its not like others will put the logo on and mess up his pugh, he is given the right to do that. I hope theres a chance that he doesnt have to wear the logo but if it comes to whether or not its against sikhi...i dont think so

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Sat Sri Akal:

Sat Hari Singh Ji would not find this emblem easy to fight. In every occupation that Sikhs have been involved in requiring a uniform, they have to this day agreed to wear the emblem of their service on their Dastaar. So there is a tremendous precedent to overcome.

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vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

If there was a problem regarding wearing the pagh, I could see it for sure. But I'm not so sure that being "forced" to wear an elbam is a particualarly bad or wrong thing for a Sikh. I mean, Guru Gobind Singh was a king, and he wore that plume on his turban right at the front, the same as police officers wear similar symbols on their paghs in front, and same as the motorman should wear something similar on his pagh too.

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

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I’ll explain why I have a problem with New York City Transit requiring Kevin Harrington to wear the MTA logo on his turban.

From Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964:

“Employers must reasonably accommodate employees' sincerely held religious beliefs or practices unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the employer. A reasonable religious accommodation is any adjustment to the work environment that will allow the employee to practice his religion. Flexible scheduling, voluntary substitutions or swaps, job reassignments and lateral transfers and modifying workplace practices, policies and/or procedures are examples of how an employer might accommodate an employee's religious beliefs.”

It’s important to note that Harrington had been wearing his turban at work without the logo for 25 years. This is important because his doing so obviously did not cause any undue hardship to New York City Transit. If it had been causing problems I’m certain they would have picked up on it before now.

Also from the Civil Rights Act:

“Employers must permit employees to engage in religious expression if employees are permitted to engage in other personal expression at work, unless the religious expression would impose an undue hardship on the employer. Therefore, an employer may not place more restrictions on religious expression than on other forms of expression that have a comparable effect on workplace efficiency.”

Apparently other employees were allowed to wear regular baseball caps (personal expression).

The fact is: a turban is not a billboard. I think a logo on a turban is inappropriate. That’s just my personal belief, I don’t know

if it’s right or wrong. I think any type of logo, sign, or flag (ie. stars and stripes) looks ridiculous. I saw a Sikh man with a “US flag” ribbon wrapped around his turban. This was after 9-11, so maybe it was just a security measure, but he looked like a dork.

Muslims are also speaking up against requirements to have the logo on their headscarves. Sikhs should also fight to keep certain things sacred.

I know that Sikh policemen in New York have agreed to wear their police badges on their turban. I can understand how someone might argue that if they don’t this would cause problems with identification, or with morale, or something else. Employers can make up any number of reasons, but in Harrington’s case it seems that his turban sans logo didn’t cause any problems until someone decided to make an example of him (that’s what it seems like from what I’ve read).

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