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September 09, 1977 - Image 83

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1977-09-09

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Human Rights Unit Reaffirms
Rights of Sabbath Observer

JOEL & LINDA GARFIELD

-AND FAMILY

wish all our family and friends a healthy and peaceful
Happy New Year

DR. MORRIS GARFIELD

and DANIEL

wish all their family and friends
a happy and healthy New Year

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To all our family and friends
a happy and healthy New Year

REV. & MRS. WOLF GOLD

AND FAMILY

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BEN GOULD

wishes all his family and friends a year filled with health and
happiness

DR. ALVIN & MONA GRAFF

extend best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year to
our family & friends

,

.

WILLIAM GROSZMAN

Oak Park

wishes a happy New Year to
all his relatives and friends

all

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Wishing all our relatives and friends
a Happy and Healthy New Year

MAX AND ROSE MINC

!

NEW YORK (JTA
State and local govern-
mental human rights
agencies, whose reponsibi-
lities include protection of
the employment rights of
Sabbath observers, have re-
sponded to a mildly restric-
tive U.S. Supreme Court ril-
ing on that issue by reaf-
firming those employment
rights, the National Jewish
Commission on Law and
Public Affairs (COLPA) re-
ported.
Sidney Kwestel, COLPA
president, said the reaffir-
mation came in a resolution
adopted unanimously by the
International Association of
Human Rights Agencies, at
a convention in Baltimore.
on July 12. The association
represents human rights
agencies at the state, coun-
ty and municipal levels.
Kwestel said several hun-
dred delegates attended.
The Supreme Court rul-
ing, handed down June 16,
inferentially sustained for
the first time the con-
stitutionality of the federal
law protecting job rights of
Sabbath observers, Kwestel
said. The ruling did some-
what restrict the right of ob-
servers to time off for Sab-
baeh observance but, as
Kwestel stressed, the ruling
was in a "very narrow con-
text" which was generally
misunderstood by the pub-
lic media.

I-
I EVE LYN & AL BROOK

Wish their relatives &
friends A Healthy &

New Year Best Wishes
To All-Our Friends and , Relatives

MR. & MRS. PAUL L. SHERIZEN
AND FAMILY

21901

Porklawn, Oak Pork,

Mich.

DR. and MRS. CHARLES I. TAYLOR

and ALAN & STEFANIE

1

wish all their family and friends
a year of good health and happiness

Happy New Year

L

A happy: healthy New Year
to all our friends and
relatives

ELIZABETH & JOSEPH
ROTH

n

ew ?jet, greetings to our

chil
dren. 9ranCI - Child,n. family

and 1,-iencli

MINNIE and RAYMOND SILBERMAN

wish all their relatives
and good friends a healthy,
happy and prosperous New Year

DR. and MRS. WILLIAM SILLS

MR. & MRS. BEN
SAMET

MR. & MRS. RONALD A.
SCHWARTZ
AND FAMILY

Wish Their Family and
Friends a Happy. Healthy
New Year

Happy New Yearto all
my relatives and friends

DAVID and JASON

MRS. HELENE
\ SHULMAN

swish all their family and friends
a year filled with health, happiness,
peace and prosperity

AND FAMILY

Happy New Year
to my friends

and relatives

LOU & ESTHER STYBEL

wish all their family and
friends a happy, healthy
and peaceful New Year

LENORA WELLER

MAX and BLANCHE
WERNER

wish their family and friends a
year filled with good health and
happiness

"

There is a difference be- kept from wrong-doing
tween him who does no mis- cause of the presenc(,
deeds because of his own others.
conscience and him who is
—The Tali

The case involved a
Transworld Airlines work-
er, Larry Hardison, a mem-
ber of the Worldwide
Church of God, whose adhe-
rents observe the same Sab-
bath-as' Jews. Hardison was
fired for refusing to work
Saturdays after the Inter-
national Association of Ma-
chinists refused to waive
seniority rules for Hardison
so he could be off on the
Sabbath.
Kwestel said the sub-
stance of the U.S. Supreme
Court June ruling was that
an employer cannot be ex-
pected to override a senior-
ity agreement with his
union to accommodate a
Sabbath observer.
The importance of the
human rights association
resolution, Kwestel said,.
stemmed from the fact that
while the Supreme Court de-
cided the Hardison case in
the context of a collective
bargaining agreement the
decision was widely report-
ed in the media as having
virtually gutted the general
right to time off for reli-
gious observances.
Kwestel said the resolu
tion took note of the limited
nature of the Supreme
Court June 16 ruling, re-
ferred to the dangers aris-
ing from erroneous inter-
pretations of the ruling, and
committed the human
rights agencies to reaffirm-
ing the rights of religiou
workers to equal job op-
portunity. Kwestel said the
resolution also asked affil-
iated member agencies to
urge the cooperation of
labor unions to help observ-
ers obtain their religious
rights.

Kwestel said COLPA
hoped the resolution would
allay fears of observant
workers that they would
have to choose between
their religion and their job.
Equally important, he said,
was that the resolution
would alert employers to
the fact that they remain
bound by law to make "rea-
sonable accommodation" to
their employees' religious
needs.
He said this would be a
great help to COLPA in its
on-going efforts to educate
both observant workers and
employers about the legal
rights to religious obser-
vance in employment, not-
ing that for the past 10
years, COLPA has been the
principal non-governmental
agency active in seeking en-
forcement of the provisions
of federal and state laws
protecting religiously obser-
vant workers against dis-
crimination in employment.

RUTH AND
FRED
KATZ
SouthIleici

To all our dear friends a

all their friends and
relatives a year of health
and happiness

Lc/Si)

relatives health and
happiness for the coming

HAROLD and TETTik
KUTNICK AND FAM1L'

RITA & ARTHUR WEINFELD

JEFFREY, LAURIE, ROBERT & KAREN

wish all their friends and family
a happy and healthy New Year

R eif

io at/ our iriench and

/amity for a hap1 n j. heatiliti new Year

GARIE and BILL WEISMAN

SHIRLEY & SOL WERBER

wish all their family and friends the best of everything
in the coming year

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JACK and JANE SWEET

MARGO and PAM

THE FORMAN FAMILY

wish everyone
a year of good health,
good friends, happiness
and peace
Ronnie, Shelly. DeAnna
Bonnie and Jayme

•• •

ARON, PAULA & LYNIN
SPINNER

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